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Buxley

Buxley is a hamlet in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

The place

Buxley is a hamlet in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is adjacent to Manderston House, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) east of Duns, Scottish Borders. Buxley is the home farm and estate offices of Manderston, and comprises cottages, offices, a dairy and other farm buildings, as well as an engine house and a fire station. Most of the buildings were constructed between 1897 and 1900, to designs by the architect John Kinross for the then owner of Manderston, Sir James Miller, 2nd Baronet. The Dairy Court, Dairy Tower, Engineer's House, Fire Station and Engine House, and Head Gardener's House are protected as category A listed buildings, while several other buildings are listed as category B.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buxley

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Duns Castle

    Duns Castle, Duns, Berwickshire is a historic house in Scotland, the oldest part of which, the massive Norman Keep or Pele Tower, supposedly dates from 1320. The castle and most of the structures on the property are designated as a Category A listed building.

    3.1 km · castle in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Wedderburn Castle

    Wedderburn Castle, near Duns, Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, is an 18th-century country house designed by the architect brothers Robert Adam and James Adam that is now used as a wedding and events venue. The house is a Category A listed building and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.

    1.9 km · castle in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nisbet House

    Nisbet House is a 17th-century mansion in the Scottish Borders. It is located on the north side of the Blackadder Water, 2.5 kilometres south of Duns, in the Merse, a low-lying part of the former county of Berwickshire.

    3.8 km · castle in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Blanerne Castle

    Blanerne Castle is the remains of a 16th-century fortified house, located in the grounds of Blanerne House, an 18th-century country house between Chirnside and Preston in the Scottish Borders. The house and castle sit on the north bank of the Whiteadder Water, around 6 kilometres north-east of Duns.

    2.8 km · castle and tower house in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Manderston House

    Manderston House is a British stately home in Duns, Berwickshire. It is the seat of the Palmer family.

    500 m · building in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kimmerghame House

    Kimmerghame House is a 19th-century mansion in the Scottish Borders, located 4 kilometres south-east of Duns by the Blackadder Water. It is the seat of the Swintons of Kimmerghame, a branch of the Lowland Clan Swinton.

    3.5 km · house in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Buxley

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 69 km · Newcastle (NCL), 92 km · Glasgow (GLA), 133 km
Stations
Duns railway station, 2.6 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Buxley
    68 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £9–11
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Buxley
    100 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–15
  • Glasgow → Buxley
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buxley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Buxley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    179 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    194 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    221 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    280 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    282 km

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Around it

Next door to Buxley

Buxley is 59 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dunstown in Berwickshire, Scotland, UK2.4 km
  • Prestonvillage in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK3.1 km
  • Edromvillage in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK2.2 km