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Boon Wood, near Lauder, Scottish Borders

Key Features

A substantial volume of timber ready to be felled.
Excellent location for access to a well-established timber market.
Fertile soils suitable for growing high yield class timber crops.
Sporting rights included.

Description

Location

Boon Wood is situated four miles southeast of the village of Lauder in the Scottish Borders countryside, surrounded by fertile farmland and mixed woodland. The woodland is very accessible by country roads from the A68 and the A6089 south of Lauder. Lauder provides all local amenities and the city of Edinburgh is only a 50 minute drive to the north, from where there are good onward transport links via rail and air to the rest of the country and further south.

Please refer to the location and sale plans to find the property and use the what3words reference handbags.newsstand.give to locate the entrance point next to the public road.

Description

Established in 1981 with a pure crop of Sitka spruce, Boon Wood is now 41 years old and ready for harvesting. The commercial timber crop was measured in April this year using sample plots and this exercise indicated a total volume of approximately 17,600 m3 of Sitka spruce (490 m3 per stocked hectare) growing in Boon Wood. This volume includes the timber in approximately 6.52 hectares of the crop which suffered some windthrow during Storm Arwen in November 2021. The majority of this is still salvageable and felling permission has been granted, so a purchaser could proceed straightaway, if desired, with the harvesting of some or all of the timber crop. The soils are fertile and, following felling, Boon Wood could be replanted with the next conifer rotation using genetically improved Sitka spruce tree stock. This should increase the yield class of the second rotation.

This property provides an excellent opportunity to invest in the timber supply chain and the benefits of tax-free timber production. Please contact the Selling Agent to request a copy of the timber volume survey, felling permission and for further information.

For further details please contact the Selling Agents.

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Property details

Tenure: Freehold
Council Tax Band: Ask Agent
Date Posted: 2026-10-23

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Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Rights & Restrictions

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Private Rights of Way: Ask Agent
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Restrictions: Ask Agent

Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

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Garden: Ask Agent

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre · available to 89% of premises

Suitable for

4K streaming on every screen
Full-time home working
Online gaming & big downloads

Fixed wireless access may also be an option here.

Mobile signal

OutdoorsIndoorsEE Good LimitedO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Predicted 4G and 5G signal; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

Westruther Primary School3.6 miles
Pupils
15
Type
Non-denominational
Gordon Primary School3.9 miles
Pupils
48
Type
Non-denominational
Lauder Primary School4 miles
Pupils
225
Type
Non-denominational
Earlston Primary School4.7 miles
Pupils
137
Type
Non-denominational
Greenlaw Primary School7.5 miles
Pupils
51
Type
Non-denominational

Secondary

Earlston High School4.7 miles
Pupils
1,090
Type
Non-denominational
Galashiels Academy9 miles
Pupils
874
Type
Non-denominational
Kelso High School11 miles
Pupils
592
Type
Non-denominational
Berwickshire High School12 miles
Pupils
574
Type
Non-denominational
Selkirk High School13 miles
Pupils
423
Type
Non-denominational

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: planning activity, heritage and any flood history here are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Co-op Petrol Lauder, Lauder4.3 miles

Morrisons Daily Earlston, Earlston, Scottish Borders5 miles

Co-op Melrose, Melrose7.9 miles

GP surgery

Earlston Medical Practice4.9 miles

Pharmacy

Lauder Pharmacy Ltd3.9 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

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Getting Around

Nearest station

Tweedbank Rail Station8.1 miles

Nearest bus stop

St Leonards Rd End2.4 miles

Typical drive times

Duns23 min · 16 miles

Kelso23 min · 15 miles

Lauder8 min · 5.2 miles

Melrose17 min · 13 miles

Edinburgh (city)49 min · 32 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

SEPA open data, checked around the advertised map pin for the listed acreage. Provided by LandSale, not the listing agent, and not part of the agent's particulars. Risk varies across a holding, so verify before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Not on SEPA's flood maps

Surface water

Not mapped

These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.

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LANDFOR Chartered Land & Forestry Agency, Perth

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