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Melville Lodge is a handsome detached country property recently restored to a high standard in the traditional Scottish style typical of the local area. With a fine sandstone frontage, slate roof and hardwood windows and doors, Melville Lodge enjoys a private, peaceful, rural location in the heart of Central Scotland. This holiday house is easily accessible and is ideally situated for touring and sightseeing with excellent road and rail links close by to Glasgow, Stirling and the North, Edinburgh and the South. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

The local area is home to a variety of wildlife including deer, pheasants, partridges, buzzards and hawks. Bean geese are winter visitors to the local area, the only site in Scotland visited regularly by the birds, now protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. The only other regular wintering flock in Britain is in the Yare Valley, Norfolk. It is thought that the Scottish flock flies directly across the North Sea from Sweden, usually in late September. Using the Forth Estuary as their landmark, the birds follow the River Forth upstream to the Slamannan Plateau where they spend the winter before returning to their breeding ground which spreads from Western Siberia to Scandinavia. The rural area surrounding Melville Lodge serves to remind us of Scotland's upland farming heritage. Melville Lodge, once part of the farm steading known as Arns Farm, was restored from ruin in 1995. Most of the lands of Arns Farm now grow trees, however, in the past, the farm has been a successful milk-producing unit and then used to rear beef cattle and sheep. Melville Lodge forms part of the very small district known as Arns, which did have its own school at one time. Arns School, now a dwelling house, provided education for the children of families of the local farming community. A photograph of Arns School and the class of 1910 shows part of the school building, the teacher and 17 pupils. One of the boys in the photograph is wearing the kilt and another is barefooted. The house name Melville Lodge was chosen in recognition of the Melville family who lived and farmed in the area of Arns in the 18th Century. Some members of the Melville family, originally from Logie in Fife, Scotland, have their final resting place in the most ancient part of the beautiful Cumbernauld Old Parish Church graveyard. Melville Lodge provides an excellent base for a variety of activities and pursuits in and around Central Scotland and beyond. The location is ideal for exploring the...