Braidwood House was also briefly home to the Airborne Initiative, formerly of Glengonnar outside Abington, who specialised in outward-bound style training for young offenders.

However the programme's funding was subsequently withdrawn by the Scottish Executive in 2004, after the airing of a controversial BBC Scotland documentary Chancers.

Many houses have been built in Braidwood in the past couple of years, primarily on the former sites of the vehicle dismantlers of Alan Gray at Nellfield.

The "Nellfield Garage" petrol station (now owned by Penny Petroleum) is still functioning along with a shop.

Between the Fiddler's Gill footpath and St Oswald's farm there is an abandoned curiosity - the Braidwood telescope - a Lanark amateur astronomer's disused relic.