News · September 2017

Harvest Festival fun at Bowhill House

20th September, 2017

Bowhill’s popular Harvest Festival is set to return with a host of family activities on Sunday 24 September. Visitors can enjoy chainsaw carving demonstrations, face painting, children’s crafts and harvest themed games as well as explore the grounds of the Estate by trailer on a Bowhill farm tour. Brand new for this year, the festival […]

Superb September events at Bowhill House

14th September, 2017

Scotland’s national poet is set to visit Bowhill House this month as part of its September events programme. Scotland’s Makar, Jackie Kay will recite some of her poems about what it is to be Scottish in Bowhill Theatre on 17 September (7.30pm) as part of the YES (Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk) Arts Festival. Later in […]

5th Duchess of Buccleuch hits the screen on TV’s Victoria

11th September, 2017

Staff at Bowhill House in Selkirk are predicting a surge in visitors at the historic house’s Victorian age exhibition thanks to an ITV television series. Series two of ‘Victoria’ has a new main character – Charlotte-Anne Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duchess of Buccleuch – played by the star Diana Rigg, famed for her roles in […]