Leaderfoot Viaduct, Melrose

Name: Leaderfoot Viaduct
Address: Melrose, United Kingdom

#4 among attractions in Melrose

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Facts and practical information

The Leaderfoot Viaduct, also known as the Drygrange Viaduct, is a railway viaduct over the River Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders. ()

Opened: 16 November 1863 (161 years ago)Coordinates: 55°36'15"N, 2°40'41"W

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Melrose United Kingdom

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Leaderfoot Viaduct – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Melrose Abbey, Dryburgh Abbey, Abbotsford House, Smailholm Tower.

1.6 miW
14th-century monastic ruins with museum
Melrose Abbey, Melrose
42 min walk • St Mary's Abbey, Melrose is a partly ruined monastery of the Cistercian order in Melrose, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders.
2.2 miSE
Medieval ruins with informational boards
Dryburgh Abbey, Melrose
56 min walk • Dryburgh Abbey, near Dryburgh on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, was nominally founded on 10 November 1150 in an agreement between Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland, and the Premonstratensian canons regular from Alnwick Abbey in Northumberland.
4.1 miW
Scott's 19th-century baronial home
Abbotsford House, Melrose
104 min walk • Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Galashiels, on the south bank of the River Tweed. Now open to the public, it was built as the residence of historical novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott between 1817 and 1825.
4 miE
15th-century hilltop stone tower
Smailholm Tower, Kelso
102 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.
5.3 miNE
Historical place, Garden, Park
Mellerstain House, Kelso
136 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.
2.2 miSW
Archaeological site
Eildon Hill
56 min walk • Eildon Hill lies just south of Melrose, Scotland in the Scottish Borders, overlooking the town. The name is usually pluralised into "the Eildons" or "Eildon Hills", because of its triple peak.
1.7 miSE
Monuments and statues
Statue of William Wallace, St Boswells
43 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.
~530 ftE
Bridge
Drygrange Old Bridge
3 min walk • The Drygrange Old Bridge is a disused road bridge over the River Tweed near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.
1.7 miW
Park
Harmony Garden, Melrose
43 min walk • The Harmony Garden is the garden of Harmony Hall which is in the town of Melrose, in the Scottish Borders, administered by the National Trust for Scotland.
2.8 miSE
Bridge
Mertoun Bridge
71 min walk • The Mertoun Bridge is a bridge across the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders.
1.6 miW
Nature and wildlife, Garden, Park
Priorwood Garden, Melrose
42 min walk • Priorwood Garden is a garden in Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. The garden contains an apple orchard of unusual apple trees. The flower garden is planted to supply the best samples for dry flower arrangements. It is administered by the National Trust for Scotland.