About Scotland

Guest House bed and breakfast accommodation
in Peebles 22 miles (40 minutes) south of Edinburgh
South of Scotland, in the Scottish Borders

Lindores Guest House

Lindores Guest House
Old Town
Peebles
Scottish Borders
Scotland

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Lindores
Below right;
Sun through stained glass panels in the entrance hall.

Entance hall in morning sun

A couple of hundred yards from the centre of Peebles and only a minute's walk from the River Tweed and the park which goes down to the water's edge, Lindores was built in 1895 by Dr Clement Gunn, author of Leaves from the Diary of a Country Doctor and friend of John Buchan the novelist. He met his wife while skating on Lindores Loch near Inchrye Abbey in Fife, and thus he named his house in Peebles Old Town.

Peebles itself has some of the best shops in the Borders and also lively cultural events at the Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre. Only 45 drive south of Edinburgh, or 40 minutes from Edinburgh Airport, it is one of the best places to stay as a central base for exploring the beautiful Scottish Borders. Traquair House (the oldest continually inhabited house in Scotland), the magnificent gardens at Kailzie and Royal Botanic Garden at Dawyck, Neidpath Castle (open in the summer) and Glentress Forest (walking and mountain biking), all within a few miles.

Janice and Nigel Henderson welcome guests to stay for bed and breakfast, and have 5 guest rooms, including the large family room with a turret alcove which you can see on the right of the photograph above.

Accommodation:

Lindores has 5 guest bedrooms, two with shower-rooms en suite, and three with a shared bathroom.

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Room 2: Family bedroom with shower-room en suite.
Below left;
Room 1: Double Bedroom with shower-room en suite.
Below right;
Twin Bedroom which shares a bathroom (shower over) with a further twin and double bedroom (Rooms 3, 4 and 5).

All the bedrooms have televisions and tea and coffee making facilities.

Family bedroom
Double Bedroom Twin Bedroom

Breakfast:

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Breakfast is served in the dining room with sausages, bacon, eggs, potato scones, beans and mushrooms, together with cereals, breakfast cereal bars, yoghurt, fruit, croissants, toast and tea and coffee.

Extracts from the Visitors' Book:

"We have passed 2 wonderful nights in a really nice and comfortable Guest House. Very pretty rooms, lovely people and good hospitality"
Angela Cremonesi and sisters, Milan, Italy

"We enjoyed it very much to stay at your beautiful new house. Breakfast was very good. Maybe we will return one day."
Gunhild and Martin Wohlgenannt, Lienz, Austria.

"Lovely rooms. We felt very welcome and cared for."
Fred and Val Lemon, Tasmania

Breakfast table

Tariff:

Prices from £25 per person per night based on two people sharing, and including breakfast.

Children in the family room are £10 each but babies in a travel cot are free

No smoking and no pets please.

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Morning or evening, it's a great pleasure to walk in the park along the banks of the river Tweed, literally a minute's walk from Lindores.

The river Tweed

To enquire or to book:

Old Town and Lindores

Lindores and the Old Town road.

Please contact:
Janice and Nigel Henderson

Lindores
60, Old Town
Peebles
EH45 8JE
Scotland, UK
Tel: 01721 722072
or from outside the UK:
Tel: 44 1721 722072

Please tell Janice and Nigel you found Lindores through About Scotland!

Map of the area:

Map showing proximity to Edinburgh (Edinburgh Airport is less than a hour away) and some of the attractions of this beautiful part of Scotland:

Map of the area