Barrasgate House Bed and Breakfast

  Gretna Green Accommodation tel. 01461 337577

  info@barrasgate.co.uk

A traditional friendly welcome awaits you at our family home, Barrasgate House Bed and Breakfast, Gretna Green, a converted farm croft re-built at the turn of the nineteenth century.
The proprietors, Joan and Alan Graham, aim to ensure that their guests have a relaxing stay in the countryside of the English/Scottish border.

All of our rooms are fully modernised with en-suite bathrooms with tea and coffee making facilities Wi-Fi internet connection and television. Central heated throughout.

Barrasgate House Bed and Breakfast Gretna Green is situated on the Old Coaching Road from England to Scotland which crossed The River Esk at Longtown only one mile from the M74 motorway to Glasgow and Edinburgh from the South at Junction 22 M74 and is ideally located for exploring the wider area.

The area is steeped in the history of the bloody border warfare of past centuries. The house is built on the site of the medieval Battle of Solway Moss, and is right in the heart of the lands of the Border Reivers, who were notorious thieves and cattle rustlers. Today, however, border relations are much improved, and the countryside in which the house is situated is quiet, broad leaf woodland and fields.

There is a wide range of activities in the surrounding area. The house is near to two border rivers, the Sark and the Esk, famous for their fishing , particularly salmon. The area is popular with cyclists, exploring The Border forrest trails, and the house is close to the National Cycle Network route 7.

The Solway Coast is only a few miles away. Each year thousands of birds over winter here on their journey south, and there are opportunities to see thousands of birds that are only a rare sight in other parts of the British Isles.

Gretna Green is less than half a mile away, famous for the runaway weddings that are carried out there. In years gone by it was possible for couples eloping from England to get married at the age of sixteen in Scotland, without the permission of their parents. There are still many thousands of couples taking their vows for each other every year to this day, at the most famous marriage location in the world. The romantic Old Smiddy (Blacksmith's), where couples were married over the anvil, is well worth a visit.