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Polwarth, Scottish Borders

Polwarth is a village and parish located in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

The place

Polwarth is a village and parish located in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is located at grid reference NT745502, between Greenlaw and Duns, in the former county of Berwickshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Polwarth, Scottish Borders

4 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
    Marchmont House

    Marchmont House lies on the east side of the village of Greenlaw, and near to a church in Polwarth in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is about five miles south west of Duns, about 19 miles west of Berwick-upon-Tweed and about 40 miles south east of Edinburgh.

    1.7 km · house in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Fogo Priory

    Fogo Priory was the a Tironensian monastic community in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It was founded sometime between 1253 and 1297 by a local landlord named Patrick Corbet, who granted lands to Kelso Abbey in order to establish a cell there.

    2.9 km · monastery in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Polwarth Church

    Polwarth Parish Church was a member church of the Church of Scotland before closing in 2004. It is situated atop a mound off a minor road leading from the A6105, Greenlaw to Duns road in the old county of Berwickshire, now privately owned by the Letts family who live in the adjacent Polwarth Manse and is available for weddings.

    900 m · church in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Langton Castle

    Langton Castle is a now destroyed medieval fortress at Langton, near the burgh of Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland. Little remains of the structure.

    3.4 km · castle in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Polwarth, Scottish Borders

Airports
Edinburgh (EDI), 64 km · Newcastle (NCL), 91 km · Glasgow (GLA), 127 km
  • Ingliston, Edinburgh → Polwarth, Scottish Borders
    9 km · quickest by road, 31 min · £1–1.5
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Polwarth, Scottish Borders
    147 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–24
  • Glasgow → Polwarth, Scottish Borders
    65 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–9
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Polwarth, Scottish Borders

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 Polwarth, Scottish Borders. 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

    172 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    188 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    215 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    278 km

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Around it

Next door to Polwarth, Scottish Borders

Polwarth, Scottish Borders is 54 km from Edinburgh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Greenlaw Moorarea of heather moorland in Scottish Borders, Scotland, UK, parts protected under various designations2.9 km