List of National Trust for Scotland properties
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National Trust for Scotland properties is a link page listing the cultural, built and natural heritage properties and sites owned or managed by the National Trust for Scotland
National Trust for Scotland
The National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, commonly known as the National Trust for Scotland describes itself as the conservation charity that protects and promotes Scotland's natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations to...

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Aberdeen and Grampian

  • Castle Fraser
    Castle Fraser
    Castle Fraser is the most elaborate Z-plan castle in Scotland and one of the grandest 'Castles of Mar'. It is located near Kemnay in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland. The castle stands in over of landscaped grounds, woodland and farmland which includes a walled kitchen garden of the 19th...

    , Garden & Estate
  • Craigievar Castle
    Craigievar Castle
    Craigievar Castle is a pinkish harled castle six miles south of Alford, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was the seat of Clan Sempill. The setting is among scenic rolling foothills of the Grampian Mountains...

  • Crathes Castle
    Crathes Castle
    Crathes Castle is a 16th century castle near Banchory in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland. This harled castle was built by the Burnetts of Leys and was held in that family for almost 400 years...

    , Garden & Estate
  • Drum Castle
    Drum Castle
    Drum Castle is a castle near Drumoak in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. For centuries it was the seat of the chief of Clan Irvine. The place-name Drum is derived from Gaelic druim, 'ridge'....

    , Garden & Estate
  • Fyvie Castle
    Fyvie Castle
    Fyvie Castle is a castle in the village of Fyvie, near Turriff in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.The earliest parts of Fyvie Castle date from the 13th century - some sources claim it was built in 1211 by William the Lion. Fyvie was the site of an open-air court held by Robert the Bruce, and Charles I...

  • Haddo House
    Haddo House
    Haddo House is a Scottish stately home located near Tarves in Aberdeenshire, approximately 20 miles north of Aberdeen . It has been owned by the National Trust for Scotland since 1979....

  • Leith Hall
    Leith Hall
    Leith Hall is a country house in Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Built in 1650, on the site of the medieval Peill Castle, and run by the National Trust of Scotland since 1945, Leith Hall is set in a estate with scenic gardens. The manor was the home of the Leith-Hay family for nearly four...

    , Garden & Estate
  • Mar Lodge Estate
    Mar Lodge Estate
    Mar Lodge Estate is a Scottish Highland estate in Aberdeenshire, owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It is entirely contained within the Cairngorms National Park and important for nature conservation, landscape, recreation and culture.-Geography:...

     & Mar Lodge
    Mar Lodge
    Mar Lodge is a sporting lodge, the principal building on the Mar Lodge Estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.-Location:Mar Lodge is a sporting lodge built for the use of the Duke and Duchess of Fife...

  • Pitmedden Garden
    Pitmedden Garden
    Pitmedden Garden is a garden in the town of Pitmedden, Aberdeenshire, Scotland owned by the National Trust for Scotland.-Notable features:The garden is noted for its geometric parterres which vary in shape from a thistle to Sir Alexander Seton's coat of arms. Pitmedden also has several long, varied...


Angus

  • Angus Folk Museum
    Angus Folk Museum
    Angus Folk Museum is a centre for agricultural history and rural life located near Forfar, Angus. It is located in the village of Glamis off the A94. The museum was founded by Jean, Lady Maitland who gifted her collections to the nation in the 1950s. Since 1976 it has been administered by the...

  • Barry Water Mill
  • Camera Obscura, Kirriemuir
    Kirriemuir
    Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie, is a burgh in Angus, Scotland.-History:The history of Kirriemuir extends to the early historical period and it appears to have been a centre of some ecclesiastical importance...

  • Finavon Doocot
  • House of Dun
    House of Dun
    House of Dun, together with the adjacent Montrose Basin nature reserve, is a National Trust for Scotland property in Angus, Scotland.The Dun Estate was home to the Erskine family from 1375 until 1980. John Erskine of Dun was a key figure in the Scottish Reformation. The current house was designed...

     & Montrose Basin Nature Reserve
  • J. M. Barrie
    J. M. Barrie
    Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright...

    's Birthplace, Kirriemuir

Argyll, Bute and Loch Lomond

  • Arduaine Garden
  • Ben Lomond
    Ben Lomond
    Ben Lomond , , is a distinctive mountain in the Scottish Highlands. Situated on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond, it is the most southerly of the Munros...

  • Bucinch
    Bucinch
    Bucinch or Buc-Innis is a small island in Loch Lomond, in west central Scotland.The heavily wooded island lies due north of Inchcruin and rises steeply from a rocky coastline to 24m in a central summit.Along with smaller neighbour, Ceardach, Bucinch was donated to the National Trust for Scotland...

     & Ceardach
    Ceardach
    Ceardach is a small island in Loch Lomond, in west central Scotland. The island lies east of Bucinch and north of Inchcruin. The name "Ceardach" means a smithy.-History:Ceardach may have been the site of an Iron Age bloomery or furnace for smelting iron ore....

  • Crarae Garden
  • Geilston Garden
    Geilston Garden
    Geilston Garden is a property of the National Trust for Scotland, north-west of Cardross, Argyll and Bute.Geilston Garden was developed more than two hundred years ago, combining several features . The walled garden has a dominating 100-foot Wellingtonia in the centre of the lawn...

    , Cardross
  • Hill House, Helensburgh
  • Tighnabruaich
    Tighnabruaich
    Tighnabruaich is a village on the Kyles of Bute in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.Tighnabruaich is part of Argyll's Secret Coast, just an hour and a half west of Glasgow, and is nestled along the east coast of Loch Fyne and stretching into the beautiful Kyles of Bute.Tighnabruaich is popular for...

     Viewpoint

Ayrshire and Arran

  • Bachelor's Club
  • Brodick Castle
    Brodick Castle
    Brodick Castle is a castle situated outside the port of Brodick on the Isle of Arran, an island in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland. It was previously a seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland.-Early and High Mediæval:...

    , Garden & Country Park
  • Culzean Castle
    Culzean Castle
    Culzean Castle is a castle near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland...

     & Country Park
  • Goatfell
    Goat Fell
    Goat Fell is the highest point on the Isle of Arran. At 874 metres , it is one of four Corbetts on the island...

  • Souter Johnnie's Cottage

Central Scotland

  • Alloa Tower
    Alloa Tower
    Alloa Tower in Alloa in central Scotland is the surviving part of the medieval residence of the Clan Erskine family, the Earls of Mar.An architect which was involved in the Alloa Tower was John Melvin....

  • Bannockburn
    Battle of Bannockburn
    The Battle of Bannockburn was a significant Scottish victory in the Wars of Scottish Independence...

  • Ben Lawers
    Ben Lawers
    Ben Lawers is one of the highest mountains in the southern part of the Scottish Highlands. It lies to the north side of Loch Tay, and is the highest point of a long ridge that includes seven Munros. Ben Lawers was long thought to be over 4,000 ft in height; accurate measurement in the 1870s...

     National Nature Reserve
  • Cunninghame Graham Memorial
    Cunninghame Graham Memorial
    The Cunninghame Graham Memorial is a stone monument dedicated to the memory of 'Don Roberto' Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham 15th of Gartmore and 19th of Ardoch, a Scottish author, politician,traveller and horseman ....

  • Dollar Glen
    Dollar Glen
    Dollar Glen is a small glen owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It is located in the Ochils that dramatically mark the Highland fault. It is near the town of Alloa, Scotland in the county of Clackmannanshire. It is popular with walkers and visitors, featuring on many routes in the area....

  • Menstrie Castle
    Menstrie Castle
    Menstrie Castle is a three-storey castellated house in the town of Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, near Stirling, central Scotland. From the early 17th century, it was home to Sir William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, who was instrumental in founding the colony of Nova Scotia. It was later owned by...

  • Moirlanich Longhouse
    Moirlanich Longhouse
    Moirlanich Longhouse is a rare example of a cruck frame Scottish black house. It is located at in Glen Lochay near Killin in the Stirling council area, Scotland. It is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and is open to visitors, from May to September, Sundays and Wednesdays, 2.00 - 5.00 p.m.-...

  • The Dunmore Pineapple
    Dunmore Pineapple
    The Dunmore Pineapple is a folly said to "rank as the most bizarre building in Scotland." It is situated in Dunmore Park, approximately one kilometre northwest of Airth and the same distance south of Dunmore in the Falkirk council area, Scotland...


Dumfries & Galloway

  • Broughton House & Garden
  • Bruce's Stone
  • Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve
  • Murray Isles
  • Rockcliffe
    Rockcliffe, Dumfries and Galloway
    Rockcliffe is a small coastal tourist village in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, with a view of Rough Island, Hestan Island, the Solway Firth and sometimes the Lake District....

  • Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace
  • Threave Castle
    Threave Castle
    Threave Castle is situated on an island in the River Dee, 2.5 km west of Castle Douglas, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland...

     & gardens
    Threave Gardens
    Threave Garden is located near Castle Douglas in south west Scotland.The garden is in size, and is part of the Threave Estate originally developed by William Gordon who bought the estate in 1867. It is now owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland...

  • Venniehill

Edinburgh & the Lothians

  • Caiy Stane
  • Gladstone's Land
    Gladstone's Land
    Gladstone's Land is a surviving 17th century high-tenement house situated in the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. It has been restored and furnished by the National Trust for Scotland, and is operated as a popular tourist attraction....

  • House of the Binns
    House of the Binns
    The House of the Binns is an historic house near Linlithgow in Scotland, and seat of the Dalyell family. It dates from the early 17th Century, and is currently in the care of the National Trust for Scotland....

  • Inveresk Lodge Garden
    Inveresk Lodge Garden
    Inveresk Lodge Garden is a garden in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, in the village of Inveresk, East Lothian, Scotland, UK, south of Musselburgh.-History:...

  • Malleny Garden
  • Newhailes
  • No 28 Charlotte Square
  • Preston Mill
    Preston Mill
    Preston Mill is a watermill on the River Tyne at the eastern edge of East Linton on the B1407 Preston Road, in East Lothian, Scotland, UK. It is situated close to Prestonkirk Parish Church, the Smeaton Hepburn Estate, Smeaton Lake, and Phantassie Doocot....

     & Phantassie Doocot
  • Georgian House
    The Georgian House, Edinburgh
    The Georgian House is an 18th century townhouse situated at No. 7 Charlotte Square in the heart of the historic New Town of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland...


Fife

  • Balmerino Abbey
    Balmerino Abbey
    Balmerino Abbey, or St Edward's Abbey, in Balmerino, Fife, Scotland, was a Cistercian monastic community founded in 1227 to 1229 by monks from Melrose Abbey with the patronage of Ermengarde de Beaumont and King Alexander II of Scotland. It remained a daughter house of Melrose. It had approximately...

  • Falkland Palace
    Falkland Palace
    Falkland Palace in Falkland, Fife, Scotland, is a former royal palace of the Scottish Kings. Today it is in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, and serves as a tourist attraction.-Early years:...

    , Garden & Old Burgh
  • Hill of Tarvit
    Hill of Tarvit
    The Hill of Tarvit is a 20th-century mansion house and gardens in Fife, Scotland. They were designed by Sir Robert Lorimer and are today owned by the National Trust for Scotland.- Description :...

     Mansionhouse & Garden
  • Kellie Castle
    Kellie Castle
    Kellie Castle is a castle just outside Arncroach, about 5 kilometres north of Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.-Early history:The earliest records of Kellie go back to 1150 where it is mentioned in a charter issued by King David I. The first known owner was Robert of London, the...

     & Garden
  • The Royal Burgh of Culross
    Culross
    The town of Culross, pronounced "Coo-ros", is a former royal burgh in Fife, Scotland.According to the 2006 estimate, the village has a population of 395...


Greater Glasgow and Clydesdale

  • Black Hill
    Black Hill (Clydesdale)
    The Black Hill in South Lanarkshire is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. It overlooks the Clyde Valley, and is the location of a burial cairn from the Bronze Age and an Iron Age fortress....

  • Cameronians' Regimental Memorial
  • David Livingstone Centre
  • Greenbank Garden
    Greenbank Garden
    Greenbank Garden, Clarkston, near Glasgow, Scotland is an 18th-century house and garden owned and operated by the National Trust for Scotland and open to the public. The house is situated about six miles from the centre of Glasgow. The house has sixteen rooms, and also barns, stables and a walled...

  • Holmwood House
    Holmwood House
    Holmwood House is the finest and most elaborate residential villa designed byScottish architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson.It is also rare in retaining much of its original interior decor, and being open to the public....

  • Hutchesons' Hall
    Hutchesons' Hall
    Hutchesons' Hall is an early nineteenth century building in Ingram Street in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned and maintained by the National Trust for Scotland, and is a category A listed building....

  • Kittochside
    National Museum of Rural Life
    National Museums Scotland and partners have developed the National Museum of Rural Life, previously known as the Museum of Scottish Country Life, which is based at Wester Kittochside farm, lying between the town of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire and the village of Carmunnock in Glasgow.- The...

    , The Museum of Scottish Country Life
  • Parklea, Port Glasgow
  • Pollok House
    Pollok House
    Pollok House is the ancestral home of the Maxwell family, located in Pollok Country Park, Glasgow, Scotland.The house - built in 1752 and designed by William Adam - was gifted to the City of Glasgow in 1966 by Dame Anne Maxwell Macdonald, whose family had owned the estate for almost 700 years...

  • The Tenement House
  • Weaver's Cottage

Inverness, Nairn, Moray & The Black Isle

  • Boath Doocot
  • Brodie Castle
    Brodie Castle
    Brodie Castle is a castle near Forres in the Moray region of Scotland.- The Brodie Family :The original Z-plan castle was built in 1567 by Clan Brodie but destroyed by fire in 1645 by Lewis Gordon of Clan Gordon, the 3rd Marquess of Huntly...

  • Culloden
    Battle of Culloden
    The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. Taking place on 16 April 1746, the battle pitted the Jacobite forces of Charles Edward Stuart against an army commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, loyal to the British government...

  • Miller House
    Miller House
    Miller House may refer to:in the United States* Miller-O'Donnell House, Mobile, Alabama, listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places * Miller House , listed on the NRHP in Arkansas...

     & Hugh Miller's Cottage

Northern Isles

  • Fair Isle
    Fair Isle
    Fair Isle is an island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland Shetland and the Orkney islands. It is famous for its bird observatory and a traditional style of knitting.-Geography:...

  • Parcels of land on the islands of Unst
    Unst
    Unst is one of the North Isles of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It is the northernmost of the inhabited British Isles and is the third largest island in Shetland after the Mainland and Yell. It has an area of .Unst is largely grassland, with coastal cliffs...

     and Yell

Perthshire

  • Branklyn Garden
  • Craigower
  • Dunkeld
    Dunkeld
    Dunkeld is a small town in Strathtay, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is about 15 miles north of Perth on the eastern side of the A9 road into the Scottish Highlands and on the opposite side of the Tay from the Victorian village of Birnam. Dunkeld and Birnam share a railway station, on the...

  • Killiecrankie
    Killiecrankie
    Killiecrankie is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland on the River Garry. It lies at the Pass of Killiecrankie, by the A9 road. The village is home to a power station forming part of the Tummel Hydro-Electric Power Scheme...

  • Linn of Tummel
    Linn of Tummel
    Linn of Tummel is a 19 hectare woodland property at the confluence of the rivers Garry and Tummel, near Pitlochry in Perthshire, Scotland. It is owned and maintained by the National Trust for Scotland, and is adjacent to the Trust's property at Killiecrankie....

  • The Hermitage
    The Hermitage (Scotland)
    The Hermitage is a National Trust for Scotland-protected site in Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross. Located just to the west of the A9, it sits on the banks of the River Braan in Craigvinean Forest...


Ross-shire

  • Balmacara Estate & Lochalsh Woodland Garden
  • Corrieshalloch Gorge National Nature Reserve
  • Falls of Glomach
    Falls of Glomach
    The Falls of Glomach, in Ross-shire, Scotland, is one of the highest waterfalls in Britain, at 113 m .The falls border Kintail, donated to the National Trust for Scotland in 1944 and subsequently incorporating West Affric in 1993. It is not easily reached on foot, requiring an 8 kilometre trek...

  • Inverewe Garden
    Inverewe Garden
    Inverewe Garden is a botanical garden in the Scottish Highlands. It is located just to the north of Poolewe in Wester Ross.The garden was created in 1862 by Osgood Mackenzie on the estate bought for him by his mother. The original Inverewe Lodge was destroyed by fire in 1914 and replaced in 1937...

  • Kintai
    Kintai
    Kintai is a small town in Klaipėda County, in western Lithuania. According to the 2001 census, the town has a population of 833 people....

    l & Morvich
  • Shieldaig Island
  • Strome Castle
    Strome Castle
    Strome Castle is a ruined castle on the shore of Loch Carron in Stromemore, 3.5 miles south-west of the village of Lochcarron, on the west coast of the Scottish Highlands.Originally built by the Macdonald Earls of Ross...

  • Torridon
    Torridon
    Torridon is a small village in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. However the name is also applied to the area surrounding the village, particularly the Torridon Hills, mountains to the north of Glen Torridon. It lies on the shore of Loch Torridon.Torridon is on the west coast of Scotland, ...

  • West Affric

Scottish Borders

  • Harmony Garden
    Harmony Garden, Scottish Borders
    The Harmony Garden is a garden at Melrose, Scotland, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, administered by the National Trust for Scotland.The National Trust for Scotland has three further properties in the Scottish Borders:*Priorwood Garden in Melrose...

    , Melrose
    Melrose, Scotland
    Melrose is a small town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, historically in Roxburghshire. It is in the Eildon committee area.-Etymology:...

     (National Trust for Scotland
    National Trust for Scotland
    The National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, commonly known as the National Trust for Scotland describes itself as the conservation charity that protects and promotes Scotland's natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations to...

    )
  • Priorwood Garden
    Priorwood Garden
    Priorwood Garden is a garden in Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is administered by the National Trust for Scotland.The National Trust for Scotland has three further properties in the Scottish Borders:* Harmony Garden, also in Melrose...

     and Dried Flower Shop
  • Robert Smail's Printing Works
    Robert Smail's Printing Works
    Robert Smail's Printing Works is a fully functional Victorian era letterpress printing works in the small Scottish Borders town of Innerleithen, now preserved by The National Trust for Scotland as an Industrial Heritage museum showing visitors the operation of a local printer around 1900 while...

  • St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve

West Coast Islands

  • Burg (Isle of Mull)
  • Canna
    Canna, Scotland
    Canna is the westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides. It is linked to the neighbouring island of Sanday by a road and sandbanks at low tide. The island is long and wide...

  • Iona
    Iona
    Iona is a small island in the Inner Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland. It was a centre of Irish monasticism for four centuries and is today renowned for its tranquility and natural beauty. It is a popular tourist destination and a place for retreats...

  • Macquarie Mausoleum
  • Mingulay
    Mingulay
    Mingulay is the second largest of the Bishop's Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Located south of Barra, it is known for its important seabird populations, including puffins, Black-legged Kittiwakes, and razorbills, which nest in the sea-cliffs, amongst the highest in the British...

    , Berneray
    Barra Head
    Barra Head, also known as Berneray , is the southernmost of the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Within the Outer Hebrides, it forms part of the Barra Isles archipelago. Originally, Barra Head only referred to the southernmost headland of Berneray but is now a common name for the entire island...

     & Pabbay
    Pabbay, Barra, Scotland
    Pabbay is one of the Barra Isles at the southern tip of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The name comes from Papey, which is Norse for "Island of the papar " At only , it never had a large population, and, after all the able-bodied men were killed in a fierce storm while out on a fishing trip on 1...

  • St Kilda
    St Kilda, Scotland
    St Kilda is an isolated archipelago west-northwest of North Uist in the North Atlantic Ocean. It contains the westernmost islands of the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The largest island is Hirta, whose sea cliffs are the highest in the United Kingdom and three other islands , were also used for...

     World Heritage Site
  • Staffa National Nature Reserve

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