People’s Postcode Trust
People’s Postcode Trust is a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery. Hopetoun House Preservation Trust received £19,950 from the People’s Postcode Trust to begin Phase 1 […]
Archive
Renewables at Hopetoun: Biomass Boiler
Following a period of intense interest in Renewable energy from the beginning of the 2010 decade, Hopetoun made the decision to commission and install a woodchip biomass boiler with the […]
Carriage Driving at Hopetoun
Following an approach to the Estate by the Scottish Carriage Driving Association in 1999, the first Horse Driving Trials were held in the Deer Park in 2000. The event ran […]
Farming Field Trip for Firrhill High
Hopetoun Farm was recently chosen for a field trip to teach high school geography pupils from Edinburgh all about farming in Scotland.
Hopetoun Horse Trials 2017
Hopetoun Estate is saddened to hear that Bede Events has taken the decision not to host the horse trials at Hopetoun in 2017.
Access to Midhope Castle
New webpage launches featuring all visitor information for Midhope Castle and other locations used in the TV series Outlander including dates when public access is prohibited.
Environmental Enhancement at Hopetoun
This summer sees the beginning of a challenging, exciting and highly significant programme of environmental protection and enhancement work across the Estate under the Agri-Environmental Climate Scheme
Giving it a Bash
The River Forth Fisheries Trust, in partnership with Hopetoun Estates, recently recruited some volunteers to help control the increasing volume of Himalayan balsam on the Estate along Midhope Burn.
St Serf visits Hopetoun…
This month the Estate was a stage for a rather different performance as over 120 local school children attended a narration on the life of St Serf on Hopetoun’s shore.
Fireworks Ticket Offer
We’ve just announced the details of our 2016 annual Fireworks and Bonfire Night at Hopetoun and to celebrate we’re bringing back our early bird ticket offer.
Due to Midhope Castle's location on a private part of our Estate we often have to prohibit access to visitors due to filming, farming operations, estate activities or large public events in the surrounding area.
