What is recorded here

Thirlestane Castle, Garden Plantation, Walled Garden is a mid 19th Century walled garden in the Scottish Borders, still marked at a point accurate to one metre. The wall is not a boundary line but a visible claim that the land should be shaped, tended and remembered. It stands beside castle and plantation as a domestic instrument of pride, patience and control.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Thirlestane Castle, Garden Plantation, Walled Garden as Walled Garden (mid 19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Thirlestane Castle, including its Garden Plantation and Walled Garden, was built in the mid-19th century and is associated with the Douglas-Home family, who have held the estate for centuries. The castle and its grounds are important as a well-preserved example of Scottish aristocratic landscaping and architecture.

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