Category: Hopetoun House

Hopetoun’s 8th Annual Fireworks Event – our biggest yet!

November 9 2017

Hopetoun’s annual fireworks event on Saturday 4th November was our biggest yet! We welcomed 4800 people for a ‘Fire & Ice’ themed evening which culminated in a fabulous fireworks show […]

Woodland Trust Tree of the Year

November 10 2016

The Hopetoun Morinda Spruce was shortlisted for the Woodland Trust Tree of the Year competition recently. After a few weeks on the campaign trail, gathering important votes, the voting was closed on October the 9th.

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.

Tree of the Year 2016

September 23 2016

The Woodland Trust is looking for the Scottish Tree of the year 2016 and the Morinda Spruce at Hopetoun House has been shortlisted as a contender.

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.

Wildlife Week

August 24 2016

For the whole week of August 8th-12th the grounds at Hopetoun House were alive with children- it was the annual Wildlife Week! The one week of the summer holidays where […]

St Serf visits Hopetoun…

June 20 2016

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

June 15 2016

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.

Caledonian Success

June 13 2016

Lord and Lady Hopetoun are celebrating this week after successfully completing The 24 at the Caledonian Challenge

Free Horse Trials Tickets

March 28 2016

Event organisers offer a free ticket to anyone who buys a ticket to visit Hopetoun House in advance of the trials taking place.

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.