Greenknowe Tower

#1222 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Forts and castles, Top attraction

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Greenknowe Tower is a 16th-century tower house, located just west of the village of Gordon, in the Scottish Borders. Although a roofless ruin, the stonework of the tower is well preserved, and represents a fine example of a later tower house, built more as a residence rather than as a place of defence. The building is located at NT639428, beside the A6105 road. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is in the care of Historic Scotland. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 55°40'43"N, 2°34'27"W

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Greenknowe Tower – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Hume Castle, Mellerstain House.

5.1 miS
15th-century hilltop stone tower
Smailholm Tower, Kelso
129 min walk • 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.
6.7 miSE
Forts and castles, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture
Floors Castle, Kelso
172 min walk • Floors Castle, in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland, is the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. Despite its name it is an estate house rather than a fortress. It was built in the 1720s by the architect William Adam for Duke John, possibly incorporating an earlier tower house.
4.1 miE
Forts and castles
Hume Castle, Greenlaw
106 min walk • Hume Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th- or early 13th-century castle of enceinte held by the powerful Hume or Home family, Wardens of the Eastern March who became successively the Lords Home and the Earls of Home.
2.4 miS
Historical place, Garden, Park
Mellerstain House, Kelso
62 min walk • Mellerstain House is a stately home around 8 miles north of Kelso in the Borders, Scotland. It is currently the home of the 14th Earl of Haddington, and is a historical monument of Scotland.
6.5 miSW
Bridge
Leaderfoot Viaduct, Melrose
167 min walk • The Leaderfoot Viaduct, also known as the Drygrange Viaduct, is a railway viaduct over the River Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
6.5 miSW
Bridge
Drygrange Old Bridge
166 min walk • The Drygrange Old Bridge is a disused road bridge over the River Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
2.9 miW
Church
Legerwood Kirk
73 min walk • Legerwood Kirk is an ancient and historic Church of Scotland church in the former county of Berwickshire, Scotland. It is situated half a mile east of the hamlet of Legerwood and 6.5 miles south east of Lauder in the Scottish Borders, on an unclassified road east of the A68 highway at grid reference NT593433.
6.1 miSW
Historic walking areas, View point
Scott's View, St Boswells
156 min walk • Scott's View is a viewpoint in the Scottish Borders, overlooking the valley of the River Tweed, which is reputed to be one of the favourite views of Sir Walter Scott.
5.2 miW
Forts and castles
Whitslaid Tower
133 min walk • Whitslaid Tower was an ancient Berwickshire seat of the Lauder family for over 300 years. It is today a ruin high above the eastern bank of the Leader Water, 2 miles south of the burgh of Lauder, in the Scottish Borders.
1.8 miN
Church
Bassendean
47 min walk • Bassendean is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, 4 kilometres south of Westruther and 3 kilometres north-west of Gordon. It is by the Eden Water in the former Berwickshire, immediately south of the hamlet of Houndslow.
4.5 miS
Archaeological site
Brotherstone Hill
115 min walk • Brotherstone Hill is a hill near St. Boswells and the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, with two standing stones from the megalithic age, on the summit of Brotherstone Hill, at a height of 418 metres.