Crook Inn

The inn attracted much passing trade from the labourers who were building the Talla Reservoir, which the railway was built to serve.

It has also, over the years, become a place of pilgrimage for members of the Porteous family, visiting the site of nearby Hawkshaw, their former ancestral home on the hills above Tweeddale and the Fruid Reservoir.

A reunion of Porteous family members was traditionally held at the inn every five years, attracting visitors from all over the world.

The proposals to convert the historic inn into apartments met with much local opposition[1] and the plans were rejected by the councillors of Tweeddale West in March 2008.

The Tweedsmuir Community Company obtained a Development Grant from Big Lottery in 2014 to redesign and renovate the historic Crook Inn, with designs undertaken by WTArchitecture, Edinburgh.