A working farm since the 1930s · Pentland Hills, Edinburgh
Edinburgh's very own countryside retreat
One quiet road past the bypass, and you're on a 700-acre working farm: Highland Cows on the hill, a busy brasserie, six holiday cottages, and the Pentlands rising from the back door.
Everything to see, book and do, on one map. Tap a marker.
One road up
Pick a door.
The map opens where you need it.
Everything at Swanston hangs off a single dead-end road. Choose what you're here for. The farm map opens right on it, with what's bookable and what's booking out.
The famous residents
Come and meet the Highland Cows
The fold grazes the hillside as conservation grazers. Shaggy, horned, and entirely unbothered by their fame. Seeing them is free, every day the farm is open: park up, follow the orange signs, and it's a five-minute walk to the gate.
Since AD 1214
“Look up, towards the hills and there you will find what you are looking for. You'll find it at Swanston Farm.”
Farmed by the McClung family since the 1930s. Robert Louis Stevenson spent his teenage summers here, below the thatched village and the T Wood, and the place has been on the record since AD 1214.
Plan a visit
Twenty minutes from Princes Street.
A world away.
- Where111 Swanston Road, Edinburgh EH10 7DS · using.coffee.weeks
- OpenDaily 9.30am-4pm. The farm & cow walk are free, no ticket. Closed Christmas & Boxing Day.
- Getting hereBuses 4 · 5 · 16 · 27 · 400 to Oxgangs Road, then 900 m uphill. Free customer parking on site.
- Contact0131 445 2239 (opt 2 Brasserie · opt 3 cottages) · mail@swanston.co.uk
