Wauchope Forest

#6260 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Forest

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Wauchope Forest is a forest on the Rule Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, south of Hawick, and including the A6088, the A68 and the B6357, as well as Newcastleton, Bonchester Bridge, Hobkirk, Southdean, Hyndlee, Carter Bar, Abbotrule, Chesters, Scottish Borders. ()

Coordinates: 55°19'10"N, 2°38'57"W

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ScotlandUnited Kingdom

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Wauchope Forest – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Maiden Paps, Whitrope Siding, Ninestane Rig, Shankend.

5.5 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Rock
Maiden Paps, Hawick
140 min walk • The Maiden Paps are twin hills near Hawick, in the Scottish Borders of the south east of Scotland, that have the shape of human breasts. They are located 12 kilometres south of Hawick; the higher pap is 510 metres and the lower 500 metres high.
4.3 miSW
Museum
Whitrope Siding
110 min walk • Whitrope Siding was a trailing short siding or spur off the "up" line, an associated trailing cross-over between up and down lines, a pair of railway cottages and a signal box on the Waverley Line or Waverley Route. It was used as a goods loading bay.
5.7 miSW
Archaeological site
Ninestane Rig
145 min walk • Ninestane Rig is a small stone circle in Scotland near the English border. Located in Roxburghshire, near to Hermitage Castle, it was probably made between 2000 BC and 1250 BC, during the Late Neolithic or early Bronze Age.
4.6 miNW
Bridge
Shankend
117 min walk • Shankend Manor was a sixteenth-century mansion located some six miles south of Hawick, close to Whitrope Siding in Scotland. It was constructed to manage the surrounding countryside and now overlooks the Edinburgh Waverley line. The manor fell into disuse during the 1930s and by the 1970s had been removed from local road maps.
3.2 miW
Archaeological site
Catrail
82 min walk • The Catrail is a linear earthwork in Roxburghshire, southern Scotland. It runs from Robert's Linn, a burn flowing into the Slitrig Water, westward and north-westward to the head of the Dean Burn, a tributary of the Borthwick Water.

Wauchope Forest

Facts and practical information

Wauchope Forest plan & book

Wauchope Forest – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Maiden Paps, Hawick

Whitrope Siding

Ninestane Rig

Shankend

Catrail