Abbotsford House Abbotsford House Abbotsford is a historic country house in the Scottish Borders, near Melrose, on the south bank of the River Tweed. It was formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott. It is a Category A Listed Building. The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of , called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.e., muddy) Hole, and was bought by Scott on the lapse of his lease (1811) of the neighbouring house of Ashestiel. He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose
The Story of Your Home including the very house itself, was there only as a result of the personal exertions of the men and woman who made up the household." The period in which this book was published has been described as the great age of the non-fictional series. These series, sometimes by a single author, sometimes by multiple authors under a general banner, were produced by publishers with an eye to selling particularly to schools and libraries. Accounts of British social history were particularly in tune with the national regeneration of the post-war years. The dust jacket of "The Story of Your Home" addressed