A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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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.
Lochinch Castle, the seat of the Earl of Stair, in Inch parish, Wigtownshire, on the W side of Castle-Kennedy Loch, 15/8 mile N of Castle-Kennedy station, this being 2¾ miles E by S of Stranraer. Completed in 1867, it is a stately Scottish Baronial edifice, with pepper-box turrets, corbie-stepped gables, terraced gardens of singular beauty, a splendid pinetum, etc. The present and tenth Earl, since 1703, is John Hamilton Dalrymple (b. 1819; suc. 1864); and the Stair family possesses 82, 666 acres in Wigtownshire and 13, 827 in Edinburghshire, valued at £43,510 and £10,782 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 3, 1856. See also Castle-Kennedy, Oxenfoord, and Bargany.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Administrative units: | Inch ScoP Wigtownshire ScoCnty |
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