Hermitage Castle
Museums & Science Centres · Across the Borders, Scottish Borders
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Open now — closes 4pm
🌳 OutdoorMemberships availableCastleEducationalSeasonal opening
What’s there
- Limited parking
- Picnic area
- Dogs welcome
Limited visitor parking; no accessible bays marked. Minibuses can access the car park but there is no coach parking (coach drivers should contact the site in advance).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Hermitage Castle is a roofless medieval stronghold in remote Scottish border country, known for a history of intrigue, murder, torture and treason. The castle was the "guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain", targeted for 400 years for its strategic role controlling the Scottish Middle March. Visitors can explore the formidable ruin at leisure and take part in a fact-finding quiz as they wander through the castle, imagining the brutal struggles for power that raged along the Anglo-Scottish border in the later Middle Ages.
Open season 1 April - 30 September, daily 10am-4pm (last entry 30 min before close). Closed 1 October - 31 March per HES plan-your-visit page.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Ice packs
- Colouring book and pencils
- Reusable cutlery
- Waterproof jacket
- Kitchen roll
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
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