This years annual outing is to Abbotsford House Abbotsford Terrace, TD6 9BQ, Melrose on Thursday 15 May 2025.
We still have a few spaces if you’d like to attend – you can download the application here and return it to haddingtonshistory@gmail.com
Abbotsford House and Gardens Abbotsford was the home of novelist Sir Walter Scott who delighted in taking people on entertaining tours of his home and eclectic museum collection. A guided tour with one of the team will be informative and memorable and the best way to appreciate the stories behind the objects and the building as a whole. The house is dressed to appear much as it did during Scott’s lifetime and the downstairs rooms preserved since his death are full of stories and intrigue. To enhance this atmosphere, labelling of objects has been kept to a minimum.
There will be lots to do after a tour of the House and lunch in Ochiltree’s Café. Visit the Gardens with Pavilion and Furnace House, the Chapel, an interesting Exhibition in the Visitor Centre on the Life and Legacy of Sir Walter Scott and a lovely Gift Shop.
Members of Historic House receive Tour discount on scan of Membership Card.
10.30 am Arrival at The Visitor Centre (Coffee/Tea available in Café: pay as you go)
11.00 am Tour of House
12.30 am Lunch: home-made soup, fresh sandwiches and shortbread, tea or coffee