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EYEMOUTH'S FISH FESTIVALS
Eyemouth boasts two annual fishy events: the weekend
Seafood Festival
on the second
weekend in June, that has cooking demonstrations, sea shanties and storytelling, that has
and the week-long
Herring Queen Festival
(
W
eyemouthherringqueen.org.uk) in July, with
a week of family frolics loosely based around the novelty crowning of a local lass.
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plasterwork and changing display of works from the National Gallery of Scotland.
he
grounds
, laid out by an assistant of Capability Brown, include gentle footpaths, a
croquet lawn, an army-built adventure playground, a tearoom, Highland cattle,
Shetland ponies, a Victorian boathouse housing a salmon-netting museum and a hide,
from where you can spy on red squirrels and woodpeckers.
Manderston House
1 mile east of Duns, signposted off the A6105 •
House
Mid-May to Sept Thurs & Sun 1.30-5pm • £9 •
Gardens
Thurs & Sun
11.30am-dusk • £5
T
01361 882636,
W
manderston.co.uk • Bus #60 from Galashiels, Melrose, Berwick-upon-Tweed and
Tweedmouth (10 daily; Mon-Fri)
Manderston House
encapsulates high-class living in late Victorian and Edwardian
Britain. Between 1871 and 1905, the Miller family spent most of their herring and
hemp fortune on turning their Georgian home into a prestigious country house. It's
certainly a staggering sight, from the intricate plasterwork ceilings to the inlaid
marble floor in the hall and the extravagant silver staircase. he whole is
sumptuously furnished with trappings worthy of a man who had just married into
the aristocracy: James Miller married Eveline Curzon, the daughter of Lord
Scarsdale, in 1893. Manderston is currently the home of Lord and Lady Palmer, of
Huntley & Palmers biscuits fame - hence the Biscuit Tin Museum in the house.
he extensive
gardens
are noted for their courtyard stables (where you can have
tea and scones for £3), cloistered marble dairy, mock tower house, rhododendrons
and azaleas.
Edinburgh
MELDON
HILLS
Windlestraw Law
(2161ft)
Peebles
Glentress
Mountain Biking
Kailzie
Neidpath
Castle
Stobo
Innerleithen
Mountain
Biking
Walkerburn
Clovenfords
Kirkton
Manor
Innerleithen
Dawyck
Botanic Garden
Traquair
House
Traquair
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Minch Moor
(1856ft)
Dun Rig
(2433ft)
Broadmeadows
Yarrow
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Bowhill
House
miles
THE TWEED
VALLEY
Aikwood
Tower
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Ettrickbridge
Mofat
Eskdalemuir
