Fishing
Hendersyde Farm overlooks the mighty River Tweed, world famous for salmon fishing. The Scottish Borders offers all lines of fishing including brown trout, grayling, sea trout, salmon, coarse fishing and sea fishing!
Fish Tweed has information on beats, river levels, catches, in fact just about everything you need to know about salmon fishing in the Borders!
Tweedbeats offers more beats on the River Tweed
Eoin Fairgrieve offers tuition for all levels of fishing expertise.
Kelso and District Angling Association offers fishing for wild trout on the Rivers Teviot, Tweed, and a short stretch of the River Eden.
Whiteadder Reservoir – fly-fishing for wild brown trout, from both bank and boat, with the Lammermuir Hills as your back drop.
The Watch Water Fishery is 10 miles north of Duns, near Longformacus
Bowden Loch beside The Eildon Hills, coarse fishing
Clerklands, Melrose, a four-acre loch that reaches depths of 25 feet in places. The loch is on Riddell Estate, about half an hour from Hendersyde.
The Till, is England’s only tributary of the Tweed, in north Northumberland, under half an hour away.
Rivers Ettrick & Yarrow, Selkirk Angling Club offers day permits to visiting anglers. If you prefer loch fishing (with two boats available to hire) you may enjoy the peace of Bowhill Lower Loch
St Mary’s Loch, west of Selkirk, in the Border hills on the way Moffat, under an hour from Hendersyde in totally different country!
Golfing
The Scottish Borders has a wide variety of golf courses from the Border hills to the coast.
Kelso Golf Club is handily placed at the end of the farm road, within Kelso Race Course.
The SCHLOSS Roxburghe Championship Golf Course is about 6 miles west of Hendersyde
Duns Golf Club a real “beauty” of a golf course, in terms of appearance, playing quality and condition.
St Boswells Golf Club a scenic and peaceful along the banks of the River Tweed
Minto Golf Course a popular course, on the lower slopes of Minto Hill. Facing south over the Teviot Valley, north of Denholm
The Woll Golf, Ashkirk is an enjoyable, testing, course for golfers of all abilities!
Eyemouth Golf Club is the only course located on the cliff tops of the spectacular Berwickshire coastline. The dramatic 6th hole, where you hit across the sea, has won several awards!
Goswick Links just south of Berwick upon Tweed in north Northumberland is ”one of the top 100 links golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland” according to Golf World.