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Interesting news · Friday 13 February
Restoration Plans Unveiled for Robert Burns’s Family Home at Ellisland Farm
Dumfries and Galloway · from thenational.scot
Photograph · thenational.scot
Plans are progressing to restore Ellisland Farm, the historic family home of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns, in Dumfriesshire.
The Category A‑listed site, where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne, Tam o’ Shanter and other major works, has suffered years of decay but now stands at the centre of an international £12 million fundraising campaign.
Conservation proposals aim for a “quiet and sensitive restoration” that reflects Burns’s original 18th‑century design and opens more of the house to the public for the first time.
Robert Burns's favourite inn, founded in 1610 on a close off Dumfries High Street, with his chair, his bedroom window verse, a whisky bar and a fine restaurant.
A four‑year habitat restoration project at NatureScot’s Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve has successfully encouraged the return of marsh harriers, a rare raptor in Scotland, to the site.
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