Abbotsford
Travel to the heart of the Scottish Borders and discover the great 19th-century novelist, Sir Walter Scott’s palace for the imagination
Baronial Abbotsford, on the banks of the River Tweed, is a flibbertigibbet of a house; a conundrum castle; a Delilah of the imagination… Not the descriptions of some architectural purist, trying to decide how on earth to categorise this fantastically idiosyncratic home in the Scottish Borders; these are epithets conferred by its adoring creator – none other than the novelist, poet and historian, Sir Walter Scott.
Like his novels -Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and The Heart of Midlothian -Abbotsford was the creation of Scott’s imagination: a rich interweaving of everything that fascinated him about the past.
Exceedingly well-read, knowledgeable, and a meticulous
