Smailholm
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 37 ′ N , 2 ° 34 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | KELSO | ||
| ZIP code section | TD5 | ||
| prefix | 01573 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Scottish Borders | ||
| British Parliament | Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire | ||
Smailholm is a village in the Scottish Council Area Scottish Borders or in the traditional county of Roxburghshire . It is located about ten kilometers northeast of Melrose and eight kilometers northwest of Kelso .
history
In 1558 David Hoppringill received permission to build a defensive tower in Smailholm. The resulting Tower House Smailholm Tower was a fortress of the regional Pringle clan for several centuries before it passed to the Scott clan .
In 1642 George Baillie of Jerviswood acquired the surrounding lands from Mellerstain. In 1700 a five-story tower house was mentioned at the site, which was probably much older. George Baillie was in 1724 that there mansion Mellerstain House building. Within a line of Baillies, the title Earl of Haddington is inherited. After the sale of Tyninghame House in 1986, Mellerstain House became the new seat of the Earls of Haddington. As a child, Scottish poet Walter Scott spent some time on Sandyknowe Farm , his grandparents' farm nearby. His impressions of Smailholm Tower flowed into his poetry.
traffic
The B6397 forms the main road from Smailholm. It connects the village in the northwest to the A6105 ( Earlston - Berwick-upon-Tweed ) and the A6089 . In Kelso there is a connection to the A698 and A699 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Entry on Smailholm Tower in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Entry on Mellerstain House in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Smailholm in: FH Groome (Ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
