Historic Houses and Gardens Facilitator – Tony Brotherton, tel: 01671 404154

Last updated 27th January

Details of our visits will appear here and in the interest groups' monthly leaflet. Visits will normally take place on the first Friday of each month between March or April and October.

Group members can opt to travel straight to the venue or meet to car-share at Riverside car park, Newton Stewart if appropriate (at 9.30 am unless otherwise stated). Anyone wishing to car-share, either as passenger or driver, should please contact me beforehand.

When visiting private gardens we should arrange to arrive as a group and may also need to declare our numbers in advance, so again, please contact me beforehand. Some of our venues will involve considerable travelling and  contributions for petrol are expected.

Thirteen of us enjoyed a rewarding trip on August 5th to Blairquhan Castle, by Straiton.

Above right: Welcome from Sir Patrick Hunter Blair 
Left: Blairquhan Castle
Right: Blairquhan Castle's Stable Block



Left: Under The Dool Tree of Blairquhan

Right: Lunch at Blairquhan

 

Seven of us visited The Garden of Cosmic Speculation in September.

Left & right: Two views of The Garden

 

Our final outing of the season saw 7 members enjoy a fine day at Dawyck Arboretum, near Peebles.  Two photographs of our visit appear below.

These last 4 photographs are of our visits to
Floors Castle and Drumlanrig Castle.