Amisfield Walled Garden

The garden has an area of 8 acres (3.24 hectares) completely enclosed by 16 foot (5m) high walls of dressed stone and is said to be the second-largest walled garden in Scotland, the largest being on the Atholl Estate.

Built in the 1780s, the walls are in very good condition considering their age. Each corner features a stone pavilion, all of whose domed roofs have been lost, but which are otherwise mostly structurally sound.

Amisfield Walled Garden is on the outskirts of Haddington, East Lothian. It is being developed by Amisfield Preservation Trust. The Trust’s aims are to cultivate and develop land within, and adjacent to, the walled garden and to preserve and restore the walls and buildings, for the benefit and enjoyment of the public at large and, in particular, the health, wellbeing, and education of the local community.

Much work has been undertaken by a team of volunteers in the last few years to restore the garden. Overgrown trees have been cleared, herbaceous borders, lawns, and vegetable plots have been planted, and new paths have been laid.

A reinstalled path leading from one of the four corner pavilions. The paths are lined with new lawns and beech hedging, purchased with a grant from The Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust in 2009.

Before the site was cleared it was packed with the overgrown trees of a former tree nursery.