West Bank

West Bank is in Scottish Borders, Scotland. West Bank is situated nearby to the coniferous forest Mainberry Plantation, as well as near the evergreen forest Old Mainberry.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Smailholm Tower and Mellerstain House.

Smailholm Tower

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Smailholm Tower is a peel tower at Smailholm, around five miles west of Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Its dramatic situation, atop a crag of Lady Hill, commands wide views over the surrounding countryside. Smailholm Tower is situated 2 miles west of West Bank.

Mellerstain House

Photo: Steve Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Mellerstain House is a Scottish country house around 8 miles north of Kelso in the Borders, Scotland. It is currently the home of George Baillie-Hamilton, 14th Earl of Haddington, and is designated as a historical monument. Mellerstain House is situated 2½ miles northwest of West Bank.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Smailholm and Stichill.

Smailholm

Village

Photo: Steve Kent, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Smailholm is a small village in the historic county of Roxburghshire in south-east Scotland. It is at grid reference NT648364 and straddles the B6397 Gordon to Kelso road.

Stichill

Village

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Stichill is a village and civil parish in the historic county of Roxburghshire, a division of the Scottish Borders. Situated 2 miles north of the Burgh of Kelso, Stichill lies north of the Eden Water and 5 miles from the English Border at Coldstream. Stichill is situated 3 miles northeast of West Bank.

Kelso

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Kelso is a small market town in the Borders region of southern Scotland, with a population of 6900 in 2020. Its name probably derives from Calk Heugh - the "chalk outcrop" which its two rivers cut through.

West Bank

Type: Agricultural land
Category: agriculture
Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.61624° or 55° 36′ 59″ north

Longitude

-2.52387° or 2° 31′ 26″ west

Open location code

9C7VJF8G+FF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 980809250

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=farmland

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