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A selection of standout places across The Scottish Borders
Priorsford Books
Emma Davey took over the second-hand bookshop on Northgate in Peebles in 2021,…
TableGiacopazzi's
Giacopazzi's is an ice cream parlour and chip shop on Harbour Road in Eyemouth,…
CultureBurnside Gallery & Frames
Burnside Gallery & Frames occupies a corner unit at 48 Market Place in Selkirk…
WorkshopKelso Pottery
Kelso Pottery has operated from The Knowes in Kelso since 1970, run throughout…
RestFauhope House
Sheila and Ian Robson run Fauhope House as a bed and breakfast from a house…
LarderLindsay Grieve Traditional Butchers
Lindsay Grieve Traditional Butchers has traded from 29 High Street in Hawick as…
Grounds
Abbey Bridge Coffee House & Pizzeria
Jedburgh, SCO
Abbey Bridge Coffee House and Pizzeria sits at the Old Tollhouse in Kenmore, on the A68 where it…
Pearsons of Duns
Duns, SCO
A garden centre forming part of a family business trading in Duns since 1920, when it began as a…
Three Hills Coffee Co.
Selkirkshire, SCO
Coffee roasters based in the Scottish Borders, with a shop at 23 High Street, Selkirk, opened in…
Table
Abbey Bridge Coffee House & Pizzeria
Jedburgh, SCO
Abbey Bridge Coffee House and Pizzeria sits at the Old Tollhouse in Kenmore, on the A68 where it…
Cocoa Black
Peebles, SCO
Ruth Hinks is a World Chocolate Master and UK Confectioner of the Year, and she has run Cocoa Black…
Coffee Corner
Jedburgh, SCO
Coffee Corner is a café and tea room at 9 Market Place in Jedburgh town centre, run by owner Amanda…
Coltman's Kitchen, Deli & Bar
Peebles, SCO
A kitchen, delicatessen and bar occupying a building on Peebles High Street dating to 1711, run by…
Damascus Drum
Hawick, SCO
Christopher and Frances Ryan opened Damascus Drum on Silver Street in Hawick in 2005, converting a…
Giacopazzi's
Eyemouth, SCO
Giacopazzi's is an ice cream parlour and chip shop on Harbour Road in Eyemouth, facing the fishing…
Jazrose
Selkirk, SCO
Jazrose occupies a small shopfront on West Port in Selkirk, run day to day by its owner rather than…
Mainstreet Trading Company
St Boswells, SCO
Rosamund de la Hey left a marketing directorship at Bloomsbury and her husband Bill, a portrait…
The Capon Tree
Jedburgh, SCO
A town house on Jedburgh's High Street combining a cocktail and wine bar, restaurant and rooms:…
The Cobbles Inn
Kelso, SCO
The Cobbles has been Kelso's dining pub for years — a modernised nineteenth-century coaching inn…
The Naked Sourdough Bakery & Café
Kelso, SCO
Cristina Wood started baking sourdough at home during the 2020 lockdown after her sister in Germany…
Larder
Alex Dalgetty & Sons
Galashiels, SCO
Alex Dalgetty had worked for Robert Douglas of Selkirk — the baker credited with inventing the…
Border Berries
near St Boswells, SCO
Harriet Busby runs Border Berries from Rutherford Farm, on the A699 midway between St Boswells and…
Cameron's the Baker
Selkirk, SCO
Cameron's the Baker is the last bakery still producing Selkirk Bannock in Selkirk itself, the town…
Cocoa Black
Peebles, SCO
Ruth Hinks is a World Chocolate Master and UK Confectioner of the Year, and she has run Cocoa Black…
Cornhill Village Shop & Post Office
Cornhill-on-Tweed, ENG
Village shop and post office on Main Street in Cornhill-on-Tweed, close to the Scottish border.…
Forsyths of Peebles
Peebles, SCO
Forsyths of Peebles began in 1938 when Walter Thomas Shaw Forsyth arrived from Duns to take over a…
Lindsay Grieve Traditional Butchers
Hawick, SCO
Lindsay Grieve Traditional Butchers has traded from 29 High Street in Hawick as a family-run…
MacVicars of Melrose
Melrose, SCO
There has been a butcher on Melrose's Market Square for more than a hundred and fifty years,…
Mainstreet Trading Company
St Boswells, SCO
Rosamund de la Hey left a marketing directorship at Bloomsbury and her husband Bill, a portrait…
Ovens Butchers
Biggar, SCO
Independent butcher on Biggar High Street, incorporated as a limited company in 2018. Sells fresh…
R Little (Bakers)
Moffat, SCO
R Little (Bakers) has traded on Moffat's High Street since 1932 and is now run by the fourth…
R. G. Foreman & Son
Norham, ENG
Village butcher on Castle Street in Norham, trading since 1840. Sells fresh, locally sourced meat…
Culture
Biggar and Upper Clydesdale Museum
Biggar, SCO
An independent museum at 156 High Street, run by Biggar Museum Trust SCIO, a registered Scottish…
Burnside Gallery & Frames
Selkirk, SCO
Burnside Gallery & Frames occupies a corner unit at 48 Market Place in Selkirk and opened in…
Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre
Tweeddale West, SCO
Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre occupies a 19th-century former church on Eastgate in Peebles and…
Eyemouth Museum
Eyemouth, SCO
The Auld Kirk on Manse Road holds Eyemouth's fishing and social heritage, run as an independent…
Jim Clark Motorsport Museum
Duns, SCO
The Jim Clark Motorsport Museum grew out of a memorial room James and Helen Clark opened in 1969 to…
Moy Mackay Gallery
Peebles, SCO
Gallery on Northgate in Peebles showing the artist Moy Mackay's own work alongside other artists.…
Number Four Gallery
St Abbs, near Eyemouth, SCO
Jenny Brook Martin, an artist herself, opened Number Four Gallery with her husband Chris Martin at…
Smokehouse Gallery
Eyemouth, SCO
A small gallery tucked into a backstreet near Eyemouth harbour, close to the beach, selling…
Thirlestane Castle
Leaderdale and Melrose, SCO
A 16th century castle on the Lauderdale Estate at Lauder in the Scottish Borders, historic seat of…
Traquair House Brewery
Innerleithen, SCO
Traquair House Brewery operates from a wing of Traquair House, reputedly the oldest continuously…
Trimontium Museum
Leaderdale and Melrose, SCO
Trimontium Museum stands on Market Square in Melrose, Scottish Borders, run by the Trimontium…
Workshop
Flight Weaving
Swinton, near Duns, SCO
Janis Embleton, known professionally as the Shuttlethrower, teaches hand-weaving from her studio at…
Hutton Stone
Berwick-upon-Tweed, SCO
Stone merchants, banker masons and quarry operators at West Fishwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed. Natural…
Kelso Pottery
Kelso, SCO
Kelso Pottery has operated from The Knowes in Kelso since 1970, run throughout by Ian and Elizabeth…
Lindean Mill Glass
Galashiels, SCO
A hand-blown glass studio on the A7 between Selkirk and Galashiels, run by Annica Sandström and…
March Hare Pottery
Manor Valley, SCO
One-potter studio in the Manor Valley west of Peebles, in a former laundry outbuilding at…
Peebles Pottery
Peebles, SCO
Small independent ceramics studio at Newby Court off School Brae in Peebles, making and selling…
William Lockie
Hawick, SCO
William Lockie has knitted cashmere, lambswool, merino, and geelong wool garments at its mill on…
Counter
20 Storey
Kelso, SCO
20 Storey occupies a shopfront on The Square in Kelso, stocking books alongside cards, art,…
Mainstreet Trading Company
St Boswells, SCO
Rosamund de la Hey left a marketing directorship at Bloomsbury and her husband Bill, a portrait…
Priorsford Books
Peebles, SCO
Emma Davey took over the second-hand bookshop on Northgate in Peebles in 2021, after a career spent…
Robert Boa Iron
Clydesdale East, SCO
Robert Boa Ironmongers holds 120 High Street in Biggar, Lanarkshire, a small independent family-run…
Stems of Jedburgh
Jedburgh, SCO
A Jedburgh florist delivering across the central Borders, including Galashiels, Melrose, Kelso,…
The Crafters
Melrose, SCO
A craft cooperative on the Market Square in Melrose, formed in 1998 by a small group of local…
The Mole House
Kelso, SCO
The Mole House is a gift shop and small gallery at 3 Bowmont Street on Kelso's main square, opened…
The Reading Room Melrose
Melrose, SCO
An independent bookshop on Melrose High Street stocking fiction, children's picture books and a…
Woodside Garden Plant Centre & Birdhouse Tearoom
Monteviot, near Jedburgh, SCO
Emma and Stephen Emmerson run Woodside from a Victorian walled garden at Monteviot, a few miles…
Cellar
Selkirk Distillers
Selkirk, SCO
Selkirk Distillers was founded in 2017 by Allan Walker and his wife Jane Gentleman, who distil…
Tempest Brewing Co
Tweedbank, SCO
Tempest Brewing Co began in 2010 when chef Gavin Meiklejohn started brewing beer to serve alongside…
The Borders Distillery
Hawick, SCO
A single malt whisky distillery housed in a converted Victorian electrical works on the banks of…
Traquair House Brewery
Innerleithen, SCO
Traquair House Brewery operates from a wing of Traquair House, reputedly the oldest continuously…
Villeneuve Wines
Peebles, SCO
Wine merchant on the Eastgate in Peebles, opened in 1982 by Kenneth Vannan and Alister Rae. It…
Snug
Dryburgh Arms
Newtown St Boswells, SCO
The Dryburgh Arms sits on Melbourne Place in Newtown St Boswells, the only pub left in the village.…
DurtyBrewing
Innerleithen, SCO
Durty Brewing runs its taproom at 4 Traquair Road in Innerleithen, centre of the Tweed Valley, 2.5…
Rutherford's Micropub
Kelso, SCO
Simon and Debbie Rutherford converted a former cashmere shop on Kelso's main square into Scotland's…
The Cobbles Inn
Kelso, SCO
The Cobbles has been Kelso's dining pub for years — a modernised nineteenth-century coaching inn…
The Ship Inn Melrose
Melrose, SCO
A family-run pub at the top of Melrose High Street serving traditional food built on fresh, local…
Rest
Bowden House B&B
Bowden, SCO
A boutique bed and breakfast in an early nineteenth-century house in the village of Bowden near…
Buccleuch Arms Hotel
Moffat, SCO
The Buccleuch Arms Hotel occupies a Georgian coaching inn dating from 1760 on Moffat High Street,…
Burt's Hotel
Leaderdale and Melrose, SCO
Burts Hotel occupies an 18th century listed building on Melrose's market square in the Scottish…
Clint Lodge
St Boswells, SCO
Clint Lodge was built in 1869 by Lord Polwarth as a shooting and fishing retreat above Mertoun…
Colterscleuch
Hawick, SCO
Two places to stay at Colterscleuch House, Teviothead, in the Scottish Borders. The B&B occupies a…
Dryburgh Arms
Newtown St Boswells, SCO
The Dryburgh Arms sits on Melbourne Place in Newtown St Boswells, the only pub left in the village.…
Fauhope House
Gattonside, Melrose, SCO
Sheila and Ian Robson run Fauhope House as a bed and breakfast from a house designed by the…
Lornebank Homestay Bed and Breakfast
Lauder, SCO
A traditional Georgian house at 10 East High Street, on the A68 in the Royal and Ancient Burgh of…
The Townhouse
Melrose, SCO
The Townhouse Hotel stands directly opposite Burts Hotel in Melrose and is run by the same…
Tower Street Guest House
Selkirkshire, SCO
Tower Street Guest House sits in Selkirk, in the Scottish Borders, with two twin rooms and two…
Traquair Arms Hotel
Innerleithen, SCO
Family-run inn on Traquair Road in Innerleithen, in a coach house of about two hundred years old in…
Traquair House
Innerleithen, SCO
Traquair House at Innerleithen in Peeblesshire describes itself as Scotland's oldest inhabited…
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