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Spottiswoode, Walled Garden

Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Spottiswoode, Walled Garden

Classification Walled Garden (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 217899

Site Number NT64NW 33.05

NGR NT 60455 49779

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Westruther
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Berwickshire
  • Former County Berwickshire

Accessing Scotland's Past Project

One of the components of the policies of Spottiswoode House is a large formal walled garden, which still occupies an area to the east of the former house.

A sundial stands in the north-east corner of the garden, just south of a glasshouse. Early editions of Ordnance Survey maps indicate a formal arrangement of paths and trees, while a pine shelter is thought to have been built in the twentieth century.

It is likely that a garden of some sort has been associated with Spottiswoode for many years. A diary written by a member of the Spottiswoode family in the early years of the eighteenth century includes an order for vegetables, indicating that there was at least a kitchen garden at that time.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

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