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Whitmuir Farm

A working farm near West Linton in the Scottish Borders with a café, a farm shop and butchery, and a woodland walk.

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Sixteen miles south of Edinburgh, on a hillside in the Scottish Borders with views of the Pentland Hills, Whitmuir is a working farm with a café, a farm shop and its own woodland walk.

The café bakes every day and changes its menu with the seasons and what comes from the farm and its butchery, with breakfast each morning and lunch from noon until three. Dogs are welcome inside and on the covered deck, which has heating for cooler days. The farm shop and butcher's counter sell fresh meat, pies and ready meals, local cheese, bread, fruit and veg, and jams, chutneys and relishes made on the farm in small batches. Outside, the Woodland Walk passes fairy houses, a pond and a bug hotel before dropping down through the farm, home to the Highland cows Morag and Maggie-Moo. Children can climb on the old farm tractor, Quercus Garden Plants is on site too, and there's no need to book.

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Before you go

Open every day, with no need to book a table in the café.

Where
Whitmuir Farm, Lamancha, West Linton, EH46 7BB.
Open
Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 4pm; Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 4pm. Breakfast until 11.45am, lunch from 12 to 3pm.
Booking
No booking needed; large groups, or anyone with mobility needs, can get in touch first.
Dogs
Welcome in the café and on the covered deck, and on leads around the farm.
Children
An outdoor play area, the old farm tractor to climb on, and the fairy houses on the Woodland Walk.
Phone
0131 235 2030

Opening hours

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Monday
9.30am–4pm
Tuesday
9.30am–4pm
Wednesday
9.30am–4pm
Thursday
9.30am–4pm
Friday
9.30am–4pm
Saturday
9am–4pm
Sunday
9am–4pm

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Where it is

On the farm at Lamancha, near West Linton in the Scottish Borders, 16 miles south of Edinburgh, EH46 7BB.

Close byThe Pentlands and Peebles.
  1. Rosslyn ChapelRosslyn ChapelA 15th-century chapel at Roslin, founded by Sir William St Clair and richly carved inside, famous from The Da Vinci Code.10 miles 17 min by road
  2. Roofless stone chapel ruin with a pointed arch window and gravel floorCross Kirk, PeeblesThe tall ruins of a friary church in Peebles, founded where a cross and relics of St Nicholas were found in 1261.11 miles 18 min by road
  3. Pink-harled kirk with bellcote tower overlooking a gravestone-dotted churchyardStobo KirkA small church near Peebles, much of it built around 1120, on a site said to go back to St Mungo, who is said to have baptised Merlin nearby.12 miles 16 min by road
  4. Neidpath Tunnel and CastleNeidpath Tunnel and CastleA walk west of Peebles to Neidpath Castle, the old railway viaduct over the Tweed and a disused tunnel of 1864 that you can walk through with a torch.13 miles 18 min by road
  5. Kailzie GardensKailzie GardensGardens near Peebles, with a walled garden, restored glasshouses, woodland walks by the Kailzie Burn and a laburnum arch.14 miles 27 min by road
  6. Snow-streaked mountain ridge disappearing into low grey cloudScald LawThe highest of the Pentland Hills, reached from Flotterstone along a switchback ridge over Turnhouse Hill and Carnethy Hill.14 miles 40 min by road
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  • 6 miles from Whitmuir
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