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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 of the removal of Invasive Non-Native Species in the Grounds. To learn more about each organisation please click on the link below; People’s Postcode Trust […]

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 aim of supplying heat to Hopetoun House, Hopetoun Estate Office and a number of adjoining properties within reasonable proximity to the boiler. A 800 kw […]

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 annually as a National level competition, hosting the World Para Championships in 2004, and upgrading to an International FEI event in 2017. The South Deer […]

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

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.