Westruther

Human settlement in Scotland

Scottish Borders

Berwickshire

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Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk

Scottish Parliament

Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

List of places: UK; Scotland

55°44′31″N 2°35′04″W / 55.74194°N 2.58444°W / 55.74194; -2.58444

Westruther is a village on the B6465, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, on the lower slopes of the Lammermuir Hills, in the former Berwickshire. The largest town nearby is Gordon.

Places nearby include Duns, Greenlaw, the Lammermuir Hills, Longformacus and the Watch Water Reservoir.

The ruined kirk dates from 1649 and contains the tombs of the Spottiswoode family. A prominent member of the family was Alicia Ann Spottiswoode a.k.a. Lady John Scott of "Annie Laurie" fame. There is a stained glass window in her honour in the "new" kirk dating from 1834.

Very Rev William Wilson (1808-1888) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland in 1866 was born and raised in the village.

Westruther was the name of the Spottiswoode family home, taken down between the First and Second World War.^[1]

References

^ Historic Environment Scotland. "Spottiswoode, stable block, groom's house, dog kennel, "bear's den", glasshouse, sundial and rustic shelter in walled garden, icehouse, doocot and well, and boundary walls to former Spottiswoode House (LB19653)".