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Barrasgate House
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| 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.
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.
Our rates are:
Bed and Breakfast is from £25-00 in the winter £27-50/£30-00 summer season (pounds sterling) per night, based on two people sharing a double room.
A single room is from £30-00 winter £32-50 summer season (pounds sterling) per night bed and breakfast. Single occupancy of a double room from £45-00.
A child sharing with two adults twelve years and under is half price.
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Things To Do
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| 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.
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Rooms
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|  | The Esk
The Esk room has a double bed and views from two windows. The view from the east facing window is over the garden and farmland and from the north window the Langholm hills and woodland can be seen.
Facilities include an en-suite shower room and WC, hairdryer, TV, clock radio,Wi-Fi internet connection, and tea and coffee making facilities. | Room Rate
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| | The Kirtle
The Kirtle room has two single beds. The view from the North facing window is over the garden and farmland The Langholm hills and woodland can be seen.
Facilities include an en-suite bath with shower and WC, hairdryer, TV, clock radio,Wi-Fi internet connection, and tea and coffee making facilities. | Room Rate
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| | The Sark
The Sark room is a double with a view over the garden and farmland to the south. The room has tea and coffee making facilities, hairdryer, television, clock radio, Wi-Fi internet connection and ensuite Power shower and bath room and WC.
The recently refurbished bathroom has luxury fittings and a spa shower with body massage sprays. | Room Rate
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| | The Solway
The Solway guest bedroom has a double with a single bed and three easy chairs, views to the east over our gardens and the farmland beyond.
Facilities in the room:- Hairdryer,Wi-Fi internet connection, T.V., clock radio and tea and coffee making facilities.
The en-suite room facilities include shower cubicle, basin & WC. | Room Rate
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Directions
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| From the south:
At Carlisle the M6 becomes the A74. Take the junction off the A74, signposted Gretna and Longtown A6071. Turn right, following the signs for Longtown. Follow this road for about a mile, and take the second junction on the left, for Gretna Green and Springfield. Our house is the first on the left.
From the north:
Leave the M74 at the junction22 signposted Gretna Green and Longtown. At the first roundabout go straight on, following the signs for Longtown, and at the second roundabout turn right, continuing to follow the Longtown signs. Continue up this road for about one and a half miles, past a farm and some bungalows, our house is on the right.
By rail:
There is a railway station in Gretna Green.
By air:
The nearest airports are Newcstle and Glasgow, both about an hour's drive away. |
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