Stichill Kirk

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Stichill Kirk is an ancient church situated in the village of Stichill in the old county of Roxburghshire, now part of the Scottish Borders Council in Scotland. The village lies 2 miles north of the abbey town of Kelso on the B6643 road and is at grid reference NT713383. ()

Coordinates: 55°38'14"N, 2°27'37"W

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Stichill Kirk – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Hume Castle, Kelso Abbey.

5 miSW
15th-century hilltop stone tower
Smailholm Tower, Kelso
128 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.
2.2 miS
Forts and castles, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture
Floors Castle, Kelso
57 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.
2 miN
Forts and castles
Hume Castle, Greenlaw
51 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.
2.9 miS
Architecture, Ruins, Monastery
Kelso Abbey, Kelso
74 min walk • Kelso Abbey is a ruined Scottish abbey in Kelso, Scotland. It was founded in the 12th century by a community of Tironensian monks first brought to Scotland in the reign of Alexander I.
4 miW
Historical place, Garden, Park
Mellerstain House, Kelso
102 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.
3.1 miS
Bridge
Kelso Bridge, Kelso
79 min walk • The Kelso Bridge or Rennie's Bridge is a bridge across the River Tweed at Kelso, in the Scottish Borders.
5.3 miNW
Forts and castles
Greenknowe Tower
135 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.
2.8 miS
Forts and castles, Ruins, Historical place
Roxburgh Castle, Kelso
72 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.
1.7 miSE
Church
Ednam
45 min walk • Ednam Church is a member church of the Church of Scotland and is co–joined with Kelso North Church in Kelso. Ednam is in the old county of Roxburghshire now part of the Scottish Borders Council.
3 miS
Monastery
Borders Abbeys Way, Kelso
76 min walk • The Borders Abbeys Way is a long-distance footpath in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is a circular walkway and is 109 kilometres in length.
6.8 miNW
Church
Bassendean
173 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.