A Family Affair since the 1930’s ………Gilsland Park is and will continue to be a family focussed holiday park where everyone enjoys good, old fashioned fun and quality time with those dear to us. We are especially proud that we have known generations of customers who have all enjoyed special times at Gilsland.

In the 1930’s; Gilsland was bought by Dr Robert Macnair, a GP in Leith, Edinburgh. He saw the Old Fever Hospital was up for sale outside North Berwick and believing in the healing properties of good, clean, fresh seaside air he thought it a perfect place for his patients to convalesce. At that time, there were no caravans. Accommodation was whatever people could get their hands on! A train carriage was lovingly converted into living accommodation, as was a single decker bus! The “on site facilities” consisted of a water tap in the middle of the field! Everyone supplied and attended to their own privy. The grass was mown by a small flock of sheep and people cooked and kept warm around coal or gas stoves. People were definitely tougher and easier to please in those days!