Ashcroft Farmhouse
East Calder
West of Edinburgh
Scotland
Free wireless internet access for your laptop.
Distances by car:
Edinburgh - 20 mins
Edinburgh Airport - 15 mins
Glasgow - 35 mins
Glasgow Airport - 45 mins
Stirling 45 - mins
St Andrews - 1.25 hrs
Loch Lomond - 1.5 hrs
Aberdeen - 2.5 hrs
Inverness - 3 hrs
- Ample off-road parking.
- Buses to Edinburgh pass Ashcroft's gate every half hour.
- Uphall train station (free parking) is 10 minutes away; Regular trains to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Free Park & Ride 4 miles away with a 15 minute bus service into the city centre for £1 each way
- Completely non-smoking.
- No pets indoors please.
Ashcroft Farmhouse is an excellent friendly and professionally run Bed and Breakfast guest house in East Calder - a village just 10 miles west of Edinburgh City Centre.
It is a modern house which has been specially designed and built so that all the guest rooms, including the six en-suite bedrooms are on one level. The rooms are quiet and light and tastefully decorated, and each is named after one of Scotland's championship golf courses.
Derek has won an award for the lovely landscaped garden which is much enjoyed and appreciated by visitors to Ashcroft.
Elizabeth and Derek Scott offer a very warm welcome and greatly enjoy their guests. They have been extending the same friendly Scottish hospitality for over 45 years, and, whether on business or for pleasure, their guests return time and again.
Elizabeth was placed in the top 5 in the AA Landlady of the Year 2004 - out of nearly 4000 establishments, and runner-up AA Landlady of the Year 2005!
Accommodation:
- Guest Lounge with books, TV, etc., (above).
- Two family bedrooms.
- Three twin bedrooms.
- One double bedroom with 4 poster bed.
All six bedroom have:
- En suite facilities.
- Remote control colour TV.
- Tea, coffee and shortbread.
- Central heating.
Breakfast:
Breakfast is served in the 19th Hole Dining Room:
A choice of breakfasts, including:
Oatmeal porridge
Smoked salmon,
Loch Fyne Kippers,
Scotch Pancakes
The best bacon,
Eggs,
Derek's delicious home made sausage made to a secret recipe (Derek is a retired Master Butcher).
Toast, oatcakes,
Whisky Marmalade,
Teas and freshly ground coffee,
Special diets also catered for.
Free wireless internet access for your laptop.
Tariff:
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From £35 per person per night based on two people sharing a room, and including breakfast and VAT.
From £55 single occupancy of a double room including breakfast.
Visa, Mastercard, Switch, Delta accepted.
Sorry, no children under 12 years of age.
Right;
Table and chairs in the garden (photograph courtesy of Elizabeth).
Below right; Part of Derek's award winning garden. Early flowering heathers in March.
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To enquire or to book:
Please contact:
Elizabeth and Derek Scott
email:
Elizabeth30538@aol.com
Ashcroft Farmhouse,
East Calder
Near Edinburgh
West Lothian, EH53 0ET
Scotland, UK
Tel: 01506 881810
Fax: 01506 884327
or from outside the UK:
Tel: 44 1506 881810
Fax: 44 1506 884327
Please tell Elizabeth and Derek you found Ashcroft through About Scotland!
Map of the area:
Automobile Association. Runner-up AA Landlady of the Year 2005
