Cardrona is a modern village on the western edge of the Innerleithen and District Community Council area.

With the first houses occupied in the year 2000, Cardrona was the first village to be built in the Scottish Borders since the ancestors of the Duke of Buccleuch created Newcastleton in the 1790s. The village was the vision of local farmer Tom Renwick and the cumulation of his eleven year planning battle.

The original masterplan incorporated 180 houses, a real mix of high end and social housing, a village hall, a golf course and hotel (the hotel and part of the golf course lie within the neighbouring Peebles Community Council area, across the river Tweed from Cardrona village in the Horsbrugh Ford settlement in the Tweeddale West ward of The Scottish Borders). The village has since expanded to around 300 houses and includes a village green, play park and popular pump 'n jump track.
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With a new road bridge linking the village to the A72, being disected by the Tweed Valley Railway Path and visited half hourly by the Galashiels to Edinburgh service bus the village has excellent sustainable transport links that serve a wide demographic of residents. The popular village hall, which is owned and manage by the community, provides a wide range of activities including Scouts/Brownies, Yoga, Pilates and mother and toddler groups.

With further development constrained by the river Tweed flood plain, the golf course and the Wilton to Grangemouth ethylene pipeline which frame the village Cardrona provides a quiet and safe residential environment.
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