A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Jerviswood, an estate in Lanark parish, Lanarkshire, on the left bank of Mouse Water, 1½ mile N by E of the town. By the Livingstouns it was sold in the middle of the 17th century to George Baillie, whose son, Robert Baillie of Jerviswood, entitled sometimes the ' Scottish Sydney, ' was hanged at Edinburgh for alleged high-treason in 1684, and whose sixth descendant, George Baillie of Jerviswood and Mellerstain, in 1858 succeeded his second cousin as tenth Earl of Haddington.—Ord. Sur., sh. 23, 1865. See Tyninghame.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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