Kinneil House *open* today for guided tours with #HistoricScotland at 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm & family-friendly tour at 3pm - and/or join *free* volunteer-led outdoor guided walk (takes just under an hour) at midday - hear some of Kinneil's other stories. Details 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/31/k...

Spotted in historic Rievaulx... Iconic telephone/post boxes from Carron Co are seen all over British Isles + other products like cannons, worldwide. Dr John Roebuck of Kinneil House was among main company founders in 1759 - find out more on a guided tour - Saturdays till end Sept #HistoricScotland

How well do you know Kinneil Estate's many stories? Learn more on a free guided walk on Saturdays at 12 noon. Kinneil House is also open for guided tours on Saturdays with #HistoricScotland at 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm and a family-friendly one at 3pm: 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/31/f...

For #ThrowbackThursday - visit in 2022 by Queen's Baton Relay, which also came to Kinneil before 2014 Commonwealth Games🏅 Discover more about Kinneil & its place in history with an indoor/outdoor tour on summer Saturdays 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/31/k... #Glasgow2026

Gorgeous day on the coast ⛅️! Why not come and find out more about Kinneil’s many stories - free guided walk at 12 noon. Kinneil House is also open for guided tours with Historic Scotland at 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm and a family-friendly one at 3pm. 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/31/f...

Open today! On most Saturdays, come & discover 2,000 years of history, with tours in Kinneil House by #HistoricScotland, and/or our free lunchtime guided outdoor walk, & see free Kinneil Museum as part of your visit 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/31/k...

[*Please note: there are no regular guided tours inside Kinneil House itself this Saturday, due to a special #HistoricScotland event, indoor tours resume next Saturday, 23 May]

Hear Kinneil Estate's stories - free guided walk this Saturday, 12 noon (& most Saturdays till September). No need to book, just turn up, meet outside Kinneil Museum (also open free) - all ages welcome, walk lasts around 1 hour 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2026/03/31/f... [Photo credit: @scotdrone.bsky.social]

Tomorrow, 23 April, in Linlithgow at 7.30pm - talk for Linlithgow Civic Trust about Kinneil at perhaps its most magnificent, around the end of 17th Century

Today is John Muir Day! Bo'ness & Kinneil contain a significant stretch of Scotland's John Muir Way: find out more @johnmuirtrust.bsky.social #JohnMuirDay

Happy #WorldHeritageDay! Name of ancient parish of Kinneil meant 'Head of the Wall' - Eastern gateway to #AntonineWall #WHS : discover more on a tour with #HistoricScotland inside Kinneil House today or most Saturdays till September [📷 @visit-scotland.bsky.social / Kenny Lam] #WHUK #UNESCO

Tomorrow is #WorldHeritageDay! Visit Kinneil: on #AntonineWall #WorldHeritageSite - & described by @undisscot.bsky.social as 'nearest thing... anywhere in Scotland to a history theme park'. See other posts for Saturday tours info [photos credit @scotdrone.bsky.social & #VisitScotland /K Lam]

Happy #NationalUnicornDay - Scotland's national animal! Here's one from 16th Century on vault of Kinneil House's Arbour Room - come & find it on a guided tour with #HistoricScotland this Saturday: see previous posts or web site for details - also our free outdoor guided walk & free local museum

Kinneil Kirk is thought to have been a site of Christian worship for around 1,500 years or perhaps more - come to its special annual outdoor service at 8.30am tomorrow to celebrate Easter Sunday: all welcome, details on Bo’ness Parish Church’s Facebook page

Missing #HadriansWall's sycamore? Kinneil has its cousin - on the #AntonineWall! Pictured today between spring showers, standing proud & surrounded by multiple other layers of history, right on line of the Roman #WorldHeritage #WorldHeritageSite! #SycamoreGap

*Free family event!* tomorrow, Sat 28 Feb, 2-4pm - help @felscotland.bsky.social to wake the fruit trees! (At orchard by Kinneil Museum, open free 12.30-4pm as usual) 🌤️🎺 We'll also be there, offering a free short guided walk telling Kinneil's stories & explaining our work: come along!

Best wishes for a Happy New Year to all our friends and supporters - here's hoping to take off to a better 2026 and future! 🎆🎉 [Photo credit: committee member Gordon Clark] #HappyNewYear2026

Wishing everyone a peaceful & merry Christmas 🎄, with thanks to our dedicated volunteers, members & all others who've supported us through a tough 2025! Dreaming of a white Christmas? Here's another view of Kinneil House when once it was a gleaming white colour with its lime harl #HistoricScotland

🎅Sign up for creative Christmas activities in Kinneil Museum this weekend! 🎄Children's Xmas decorations workshop, 10am Saturday & Sunday 🎄 Adults' Xmas wreath workshop, 11.30am or 1.30pm Saturday & Sunday Limited availability - book via www.falkirkleisureandculture.org/whats-on/we-...

Come to our free talk tomorrow, Monday 17 November, 7.30pm: "James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran & Governor of Scotland: The best King we never had?" by historian Dr Amy Blakeway @standrewshist.bsky.social At: St Mary's RC Church Hall, Linlithgow Rd, Bo'ness EH51 0DP

Kinneil’s 350-year-old #WhiteLady takes her leave for another year 👻 after #Halloween 🎃 - to read her story, visit www.kinneil.org.uk/ghost #Halloween2025 #HistoricScotland

Great news about launch last weekend of new weekly #parkrun at Bo'ness & Kinneil foreshore - next event tomorrow! 👉 parkrun.org.uk/bonessforesh... It should bring many new/repeat visitors to discover area's remarkable setting & heritage (featured at kinneil.org.uk/nature-reser...) #parkrunuk

Thanks to #HistoricScotland, to the fabulous Antonine Guard & all other contributors & volunteers for Saturday’s free Roman #DoorsOpenDays at Kinneil - nearly 800 people saw inside Kinneil House & many more enjoying free activities in museum & outdoors including our guided walks

Fatally wounded & highest-ranking casualty during defeat by Jacobites at Battle of Prestonpans 280 years ago #OTD, 21 September 1745 - Colonel James Gardiner, of 13th Dragoons - born 1687 at Burnfoot, Carriden, just East of Bo'ness & remembered in plaque at Carriden Kirk this morning

This weekend (6/7 September) don't miss spectacle of historic Bo'ness Hill Climb motor-racing event + (on Sunday) Classic Car Show! *NB!* both Kinneil House & Museum will be closed for event, & with no indoor/outdoor guided tours 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2025/09/02/k... #historicscotland #motorracing

Church on Sunday ✝️ … Spotted this summer in Panes, Asturias, Spain - Romanesque Church of St John of Ciliergo, with uncanny likeness to Kinneil Kirk & from similar period: ruined in Spanish Civil War, recently restored by local council #historicscotland #celticconnections

*Please note*: regrettably our usual volunteer-led free outdoor guided walk at Kinneil at midday this Saturday, 30 August, & next Saturday, 6 September, will not take place due to other activities & events taking place - sincere apologies - next free guided walk will be Saturday 13 September

Visit Kinneil today 🏰 ⛅️ ! The house is *open* on Saturdays for indoor tours, plus a free midday guided outdoor walk: 👉 kinneil.org.uk/2025/04/01/k...

Kinneil House's 16/17C wall paintings said to be finest from period of any Scottish house & among best in Britain: the 'Parable' room, once powerful ex-Regent Arran's presence chamber, depicts Good Samaritan story & is visitor highlight - come for Saturday tours kinneil.org.uk/2025/04/01/k...

Kinneil House in one of earliest known paintings of it, by William Woolard. Anyone know any earlier, or other local Woolard scenes? 📣Visit on Saturdays for regular indoor/outdoor guided tours👉 kinneil.org.uk/2025/04/01/k... More on Woolard's pictures of Kinneil: ➡️ kinneil.org.uk/2024/11/21/v...