Mellerstain House, Kelso

Name: Mellerstain House
Address: Kelso, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1573 410225

#4 among attractions in Kelso

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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. ()

Alternative names: Elevation: 535 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 55°38'39"N, 2°33'41"W

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Kelso United Kingdom

Contact

+44 1573 410225

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Day trips

Mellerstain House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Hume Castle, Leaderfoot Viaduct.

2.8 miS
15th-century hilltop stone tower
Smailholm Tower, Kelso
71 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.
4.8 miSE
Forts and castles, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture
Floors Castle, Kelso
123 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.
3.8 miNE
Forts and castles
Hume Castle, Greenlaw
98 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.
5.3 miSW
Bridge
Leaderfoot Viaduct, Melrose
136 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.
2.4 miN
Forts and castles
Greenknowe Tower
62 min walk • 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.
5.3 miSE
Forts and castles, Ruins, Historical place
Roxburgh Castle, Kelso
134 min walk • Roxburgh Castle is a ruined royal castle that overlooks the junction of the rivers Tweed and Teviot, in the Borders region of Scotland.
5.3 miSW
Monuments and statues
Statue of William Wallace, St Boswells
135 min walk • The William Wallace Statue near the grounds of the Bemersyde estate, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders is a statue commemorating William Wallace.
5.2 miSW
Bridge
Drygrange Old Bridge
134 min walk • The Drygrange Old Bridge is a disused road bridge over the River Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
5 miSW
Bridge
Mertoun Bridge
127 min walk • The Mertoun Bridge is a bridge across the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders.
4.3 miNW
Church
Legerwood Kirk
109 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.
4.5 miSW
Historic walking areas, View point
Scott's View, St Boswells
116 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.