Scottish Borders B&B

Angling

The Scottish Borders has everything for the angler. There is fishing for salmon in the River Tweed and sea trout in its tributaries such as the Whiteadder. Good brown trout and rainbow trout fishing is found at Coldingham and the Watch Reservoir.

Licences are available by arrangement. Sea fishing is available by boat from the fishing villages of Eyemouth and St Abbs.

Walking the Borders

The Scottish Borders includes some wonderful walking country with an infinite variety of magnificent scenery, ranging from spectacular coastal cliffs and headlands, to extensive forests, rolling green hills and beautiful river valleys.

For the keen long-distance Walker, the starting points of the Pennine Way and the St Cuthbert's Way are nearby, and the Southern Upland Way offers a challenging coast-to-coast crossing of southern Scotland. The Scottish Borders Council offers a programme of guided walks ranging in length from two to twelve miles.

The cliffs and beaches between Dunbar and Berwick-upon-Tweed abound in birdlife, with a wide variety of the less common seabirds and waders to be seen. It's a Birdwatchers' paradise!

Golf, shooting, diving are all available by arrangement. One of the fastest-growing sports in Scotland is surfing. Locally Coldingham Bay has excellent surfing and facilities to match. Check out the conditions on the Coldingham Bay WebCam.

Places to visit

There is an abundance of buildings to be visited, from castles, ruined abbeys to magnificent family homes. The ruins of a series of striking 12th century abbeys, all founded by the pious King David 1, can still be seen and are located in the following local border towns:

• Kelso
• Melrose
• Jedburgh
• Dryburgh

Stately homes well worth a visit include:

• Floors Castle: Scotland's largest inhabited Castle.
• Thirlestane Castle: home of the Earls of Lauderdale.
• Abbotsford House: home of Sir Walter Scott
• Manderston House: scene of the Edwardian Country House TV
  series.
• Mellerstain House: Scotland's finest Adam mansion

Leitholm is ideally placed for exploring the Scottish Borders. Situated in the Tweed Valley beneath the Lammermuir Hills Leitholm is about five minutes from the River Tweed at Coldstream. Other border towns of Duns, Eyemouth, Melrose, Selkirk, Kelso and Burnmouth are all within easy reach of Nisbet House.

The capital of Scotland, Edinburgh is a straightforward picturesque drive of 40 miles from Nisbet House.

The coast is about 20 miles away, with its breathtaking clifftop scenery at St Abbs Head and charming fishing towns and villages of Eyemouth, St Abbs and Burnmouth.

For those wishing to stray across the border, the beautiful Northumbrian coast and Lindisfarne are less than an hour's drive away.