Kneesend Plantation

Kneesend Plantation is a forest in Scottish Borders, Scotland. Kneesend Plantation is situated nearby to the hamlet Yair, as well as near Fairnilee.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Newark Castle and Peel Hospital.

Newark Castle

Ruins

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Newark Tower is a large, ruined tower house standing in the grounds of Bowhill House, in the valley of the Yarrow Water three miles west of Selkirk in the Scottish Borders.

Peel Hospital

Building

Photo: Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Peel Hospital was a health facility at Caddonfoot in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is a Category A Listed Building.

Yair, also known as The Yair, is an estate in the Scottish Borders. It stands by the River Tweed in the former county of Selkirkshire, 2.5 miles north-west of Selkirk, and 28 miles south of Edinburgh.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Selkirk and Galashiels.

Selkirk

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Selkirk is a market town in the Scottish Borders, with a population in 2020 of 4540. Its main trade of textiles has gone, and it's becoming a commuter town for Edinburgh, linked by the re-opened railway through nearby Galashiels.

Galashiels

Photo: John Brewer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Galashiels is a town in the Scottish Borders, 33 miles south of Edinburgh. It's a former mill town which is now part of commuterland for the city, and in 2016 had a population of about 12,600.

Clovenfords

Village

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Clovenfords is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, 1 mile north of the hamlet of Caddonfoot and 4 miles west of the town Galashiels. The village sits on undulating grasslands and surrounding rolling hills.