Springwood Park, a mansion in Kelso parish, Roxburghshire, near the right bank of the winding Teviot, 1 ¼ mile SW of the town. Built in 1756, it figures well in the gorgeous views around Kelso; is surrounded with a finely wooded park; and has an admirable entrance gateway, formed after designs by Gillespie Graham in 1822. It is the seat of Sir George HenryScott Douglas, fourth Bart. since 1786 (b. 1825; suc. 1836), who was Conservative member for Roxburghshire from 1874 to 1880, and holds in it 5568 acres, valued at £6730 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 25, 1865.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)