Scotland Vacation - Cottage

Another of the trips that we wanted to take before coming back to Virginia was up to Scotland. We figured that the last week of August would be the perfect time to head up there (while the weather was still warm). I started looking for a place and was thinking of a self-catering cottage or something like that so that we could do things at our own pace. I went to the Visit Scotland web site and started looking. Not wanting to drive too much at any one time I settled on the south of Scotland (south of the Glasgow - Edinburgh line).

After a little searching I found what turned out to be the perfect place: Stonehill Cottage just outside the village of Crawfordjohn in Lanarkshire. The cottage is on a 1500 acre organic beef and lamb farm. The rural setting was great. At night you could only see the lights from one other farm. There were hills, sheep, and cattle everyone. A few mornings the farmer would ran a group of sheep past the cottage to move them between fields.

The farm sits between two large estates: Douglas & Argyll to the north and the Duke of Buccleuch to the south. The Duke of Buccleuch owns 270k+ acres and estates, castles and palaces in Selkirkshire, Dumfriesshire and Dalkeith palace in Edinburgh.