Find a place to visit
🚪 On your doorstep
Under 30 minutes away
Priorwood Garden
A beautiful walled garden, with a heritage orchard and flower beds, waiting to be explored
4 mile s away
Harmony Garden
Discover peace among manicured lawns and scented borders with views across Melrose Abbey
4 mile s away
Robert Smail’s Printing Works
Oldest working commercial letterpress printers in the UK – a living museum of Victorian history
12 mile s away
🥪 Pack a picnic
Under 1 hour away
Grey Mare’s Tail
One of Scotland’s favourite waterfalls takes a spectacular 60m plunge into the valley below
22 mile s away
Inveresk Lodge Garden
Peaceful hillside garden and pond tucked away in a charming village
29 mile s away
Newhailes
Palladian house that played a prominent role in the Scottish Enlightenment
29 mile s away
- Café
- 9.00–17.00
- Shop and second-hand book shop
- 10.00–17.00
- House
- pre-booked tours (run from 11am)
- Weehailes Playpark
- 10.00–17.00
Preston Mill
Picturesque mill on the banks of the River Tyne – waterwheel, millpond, doocot and Outlander set
31 mile s away
- Mill, gift shop and exhibition
- 10.00–16.30 (tours at 10.30, 12.00, 13.30 & 15.00)
Malleny Garden
Tranquil oasis on the outskirts of Edinburgh, where heritage roses sit alongside 400-year-old yew trees
32 mile s away
Gladstone’s Land
One of the oldest buildings on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile
32 mile s away
- House
- Self-guided visit: 10.00–14.30; guided tour: 15.00
- Ice cream parlour and coffee shop
- 09.00–22.00
The Georgian House
An Edinburgh New Town house restored to reflect the lives of those who lived and worked here in the late 18th and early 19th century.
32 mile s away
- House, gift shop and book shop
- 10.00–17.00 (last admission 16.00)
St Abb’s Head
Breathtaking coastal headland with dramatic cliffs, famed for its seabird colonies
35 mile s away
Thomas Carlyle’s Birthplace
Childhood home of one of Britain’s most influential thinkers
39 mile s away
🏴 A real adventure
Over 2 hours away
House of the Binns
With spectacular views across the Scottish countryside, the home of the Dalyells boasts 400 years of fascinating family history.
42 mile s away
Kellie Castle
Medieval stonework meets Victorian style, with fine artworks, ornate plasterwork and an Arts & Crafts garden.
48 mile s away
- Castle
- 10.00–17.00
- Shop
- 09.45–17.00
- Tearoom
- 10.00–16.30
- Garden
- Dawn–dusk
Culross
Step into the past along the cobbled streets of a picturesque village with its own ochre-coloured palace
48 mile s away
- Palace and garden
- 10.00–17.00 (last entry 16.00)
- Shop
- 10.00–16.45
- Bessie’s Café
- 10.00–16.30 (last orders 16.00)
Falkland Palace
A fine Renaissance palace with an extensive formal garden and one of Britain’s oldest tennis courts
51 mile s away
Hill of Tarvit Mansion
Work, rest and play ‘above’ and ‘below’ stairs in this Edwardian mansion with its own unique golf course
52 mile s away
- Mansion
- Guided tours only at 10.00 and 11.00; self-guided visits 13.00–17.00 (last entry 16.00)
- Kingarrock Hickory Golf
- first tee time 10.00
- Garden and grounds
- Dawn–dusk
Alloa Tower
Large fortified tower boasts lavish interiors where kings and queens once wandered
55 mile s away
Dollar Glen
Deep gorges, cascading waterfalls, Castle Campbell and woodland walks in the Ochil Hills
55 mile s away
- Dollar Glen
- All year, daily
- Castle Campbell
- 10.00–16.30 (last entry 16.00)
National Museum of Rural Life
Explore life in the countryside at this museum and historic working farm
58 mile s away
Bannockburn
Stand shoulder to shoulder with Robert the Bruce on the site of his greatest victory
58 mile s away
- Visitor Centre and Battle Experience
- 10.00–17.00
- Café
- 10.00–17.00
- Site
- All year, daily
Holmwood
Classical elegance and architectural tricks distinguish Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s finest domestic creation
60 mile s away
- House, café, shop and grounds
- 10.00–17.00 (last entry 16.00)
Greenbank Garden
An urban oasis with woodland walks and beautiful plants in all seasons, close to Glasgow’s Southside suburbs
61 mile s away
- Garden
- 10.00–17.00 (last entry 16.00)
- Café, courtyard and toilets
- 10.00–17.00 (last orders 16.30)
- Woodland walks
- 10.00–16.30