Newtown St Boswells, Scotland • Scotland
Newtown St Boswells sits where the A68 and A6091 meet in the Scottish Borders, the TD postcode area, in the shadow of the three Eildon Hills and a couple of miles from Melrose. It's a small, practical administrative village for the region, and a handy base for crews working across the Borders. KrewBase houses them in whole serviced homes with bills in our name, parking checked against your vehicles and one monthly invoice.
The village itself is modest — council-era housing, bungalows and a few stone properties along the main streets — with the richer stock spread through the neighbouring villages. Most crews end up lodged around Newtown St Boswells, Melrose, St Boswells or along the Tweed, where stone cottages, semis and newer detached houses offer driveways and space.
We shortlist across the area by drive time from your site rather than by village name, and every property passes the same checks: parking measured against your vehicles, broadband speed-tested before check-in, two bathrooms for five-plus crew, and nothing damp or tired.
The Borders generates steady crew demand: housing development across the region, road and infrastructure maintenance along the A68 and A7 corridors, forestry and land work in the hills, and public-sector contracts around the area's schools and healthcare facilities.
Melrose and the Tweed valley towns bring tourism-related maintenance too, and some crews base here for contracts that run between Edinburgh — about an hour north — and the central Borders. If the job moves, we re-shortlist around the new site.
The A68 runs north towards Edinburgh in around an hour and south towards Jedburgh and the border, while the A6091 and A7 cover the Tweed valley towns — Melrose in minutes, Galashiels in about ten, Hawick in half an hour. The A696 and A72 reach further into Northumberland and Lanarkshire when contracts cross the map.
Tweedbank station, just west of Galashiels, has trains on the Borders Railway into Edinburgh, useful for crew who'd rather not drive. For any site, we shortlist by real drive time from the gate, agreed before you commit.
The whole property is yours — no shared corridors with strangers. Rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and Wi-Fi all sit in our name, with a weekly clean and fresh linen included. Houses sleeping five or more crew come with two bathrooms as a minimum.
Maintenance is our job: the crew report an issue, our team deals with the landlord and trades, and your site manager hears nothing. Your company gets one monthly invoice covering everything, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
The village has some suitable stock, but we'll also look across Melrose, St Boswells and the Tweed valley villages depending on your site. We shortlist by drive time, so the best house for the job may sit just outside the village — we'll be upfront about it.
A couple of hours is the aim. Send the headcount, vehicle list and site postcode and we'll return serviced houses across the local villages matched to real drive times along the A68, A6091 and A7.
We check every property against the vans and pickups you list before it makes the shortlist. The semis and detached houses around the Tweed valley villages typically take two or three vehicles; tighter cottage streets we avoid unless your count is small.
Yes — rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband all sit in our name and arrive as a single monthly invoice paid by card. The Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in.
The Borders Railway from Tweedbank reaches Edinburgh in under an hour, and the A68 does it in about the same by van. If your crew's site is city-side, we'll weigh both routes and shortlist where the total commute makes sense.
We do. Any problem at the house goes to our maintenance team and we deal with it — landlord, trades, follow-up. Your company just settles the one monthly invoice and nothing else.
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If Newtown St Boswells is short on the right house for your crew, Edinburgh is the obvious back-up, roughly 33 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Edinburgh page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Newtown St Boswells? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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