Accommodation between Earlston and Duns in the South of Scotland
Family home bed and breakfast with optional dinner
Stables and paddocks for horses available.
Mansefield
Greenlaw
Berwickshire
Scotland
Newcastle 70 miles (112 kms)
Edinburgh 40 miles (64 kms)
Coldstream 10 miles (16 kms)
Kelso 8 miles (13 kms)
Melrose 16 miles (26 kms)
Duns 6 miles (10 kms)
Mansefield is a traditional Scottish Georgian former minister's house on the edge of the small town of Greenlaw less than an hour south east of Edinburgh in the Scottish Borders. It is the home of Pippa and Tim Culham and their family, and they welcome guests to stay for bed and breakfast, and optional dinner.
This is an informal family home; there's a trampoline in the garden, ponies in the field, and Tim and Pippa lead a busy life with school-age children and a small farm with chickens, horses, sheep, a pig (...plus 10 piglets at the time of my visit... -editor).
Guests have a Drawing Room all to themselves, and there's a garden, paddocks and 250 metres of river-bank on the Blackadder where you can fish if you like.
Accommodation:
Left and right;
In the main part of the house, a twin bedroom with private bathroom a couple of steps away. Classic 1940's cast iron bath with shower attachment.
Below left and right;
This double bedroom is in a separate wing. Contemporary bathroom en suite, with bath and separate shower.
Both bedrooms have a tea and coffee making tray.
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Right;
Sunlight in the Drawing room.
The Drawing room is for guests' use.
Windows look onto the garden, and there's a piano, television, chessboard, plenty of games and wood-burning stove.
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Breakfast (and optional dinner):
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Breakfast (and dinner) is served at the table under the window in the Drawing Room (right). Home baking, fresh coffee, cheese scones ("delicious!" -editor), eggs from the Culham's free range hens, their own recipe pork and pheasant sausages, their own home-grown bacon, local honey (all according to availability).
Sample Dinner menu:
Supper could be something like Vegetable Lasagne with a crispy mixed salad and either a starter or dessert.
Dinner £25 and a complimentary glass of wine.
Supper £20.
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Please give Pippa reasonable advance notice if you would like dinner or supper, then you can discuss menus and any special requests. Whenever possible the ingredients are sourced locally and often both the vegetables and the meat are home grown at Mansefield.
Greenlaw itself has 2 pubs, both of which do meals.
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Tariff:
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Twin bedroom (private bathroom)
£30 per person per night based on two people sharing a room, and including breakfast.
Double bedroom (private bathroom en suite)
£35 per person per night based on two people sharing a room, and including breakfast.
Single occupancy add £10 per night.
Sorry no pets, and no smoking
Right; The front door.
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To enquire or to book:
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Please contact:
Tim and Pippa Culham
email:
timc@tesco.net
Mansefield
Greenlaw
Berwickshire TD10 6YF
Scotland, UK
Tel: 01361 810260
or from outside the UK:
Tel: 44 1361 810260
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Note: Pippa is very happy (even prefers) to receive telephone enquiries. She will ring back if you leave a message on her answer-phone.
Please tell Tim and Pippa you found Mansefield through About Scotland!
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Left and right; Beela in the garden, and 10 day old Tamworth piglets in the stables.
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Activities in the area
Walking - wonderful walking and the Southern Upland Way is within 5 miles.
Outdoor sports - fishing, shooting, riding.
Historic Tours - Abbeys at Kelso, Jedburgh, Melrose and Dryburgh. Mellerstain House. Manderston House (The Edwardian House of TV fame) and Floors Castle are all within easy reach. Edinburgh is just one hour.
Golf - Sunlaws 12 miles; Coldsteam and Duns are within minutes and most East Lothian courses are within an hour.
Local festivals, common riding and civic weeks take place in June, July and August. Jim Clark Rally in early July.
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Map of the area:
