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The Kingsknowes Hotel Galashiels

The Kingsknowes Hotel, Kingsknowes Hotel Selkirk Road, Galashiels, TD1 3HY

Rooms from £75

The Kingsknowes Hotel is a beautiful Scots Baronial Mansion built in 1869 with 12 individually furnished en-suite bedrooms. The hotel has splendid and well tended gardens abundant parking and is only a 15 minute walk from Galashiels town centre.The Kingsknowes is set in the heart of the romantic Scottish Borders and overlooks Abbotsford House- Sir Walter Scott's ancestral home - the River Tweed (famous salmon river) and the beautiful Eildon hills.It is an ideal base whether you are on business or wish to tour the area and explore the Border Abbeys and famous houses relax in our ambient atmosphere or enjoy golf shooting salmon fishing walking or cycling and many other sporting activities.Lunch and dinner is served daily in the Courtyard Bar or in one of our unique dining rooms and during the summer months in our original Edwardian conservatory.We are situated only 33 miles south of Edinburgh on the A7 with great transport links to other surrounding Border towns.

Directions to The Kingsknowes Hotel Galashiels

From the NorthEDINBURGH via A7: Continue on the A7 through Galashiels one way system past TESCO and ASDA and straight over the small roundabout up Brawlads Brae. Drivestraight over two small roundabouts at the third (large) Kingsknowes Roundabout take the A7 (for Selkirk and Hawick) take the first left at the hotel sign continue through housing to the hotel at the bottom of the road.From the SouthNEWCASTLE via A68: Continue on the A68 through Jedburgh and St Boswells after a mile turn left at the roundabout for Galashiels drive approx two miles to the third roundabout take first left (A7 for Selkirk and Hawick) take first left at hotel sign continue through housing to hotel at the bottom of the road.From the WestCARLISLE via A7: Continue through Selkirk on A7 to the outskirts of Galashiels approx 5 miles turn right at the hotel sign immediately before the first roundabout continue through housing to the hotel at the bottom of the road.

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