Category: Hopetoun Estate

Hopetoun Estate Community Information Event

February 23 2026

Join the Hopetoun Estate team for a Community Information Event on 31 March 2026 detailing upcoming plans for the Estate and surrounding areas.

New seated bench area unveiled at Newton Steading

February 13 2026

Newton Community Council in collaboration Hopetoun, M Group Ltd, EA Landscapes and ANDYSMANCLUB unveiled a new seated bench area at Newton Steading, offering a relaxing spot for the residents to […]

Hopetoun Estate Lunch – December 2025

December 23 2025

Last week at our annual Estate Lunch, we were delighted to have Lord Hopetoun, present long-service awards to members of the Hopetoun Estate team. The recipients were Donald Noble, Steve […]

A Stop Start Affair – Harvest 2019

September 12 2019

Harvest is underway at Hopetoun but is proving a stop start affair for our contractors RM & JF Seed, as a result of the spell of prolonged inclement weather. The […]

Tynecastle School Farm Visit

November 23 2017

We were very pleased to have been able to facilitate a recent visit between RHET – The Royal Highland Education Trust and Tynecastle High School. RHET is a wonderful […]

Farming Field Trip for Firrhill High

October 27 2016

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

October 7 2016

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

September 15 2016

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

August 31 2016

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

August 1 2016

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.

Hopetoun is clearly sign posted from Glasgow and Edinburgh, we recommend you travel towards South Queensferry and follow the brown tourist signs.

Alternatively, for Sat Nav please use post code EH30 9RW which will direct you to Farquhar Terrace in South Queensferry, from here it is a straight road from this point for about 1.5 miles.

Please note that there is no access to Hopetoun House from the Bo’ness road A904 (even though your Sat Nav might tell you otherwise).

Car parking at Hopetoun is free of charge with the exception of large public events where additional charges may apply.

For further details please visit our Find Us page.