Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Manlesden

Manlesden, a mansion in Brechin parish, Forfarshire, near the South Esk's left bank, 2 miles W by S of the town. A Scottish Baronial mansion, built in 1853 for the Hon. W. Maule from designs by the late David Bryce, R.S.A., it is now the seat of Thomas Hunter Cox, Esq. (b. 1818), who holds 97 acres in the shire, valued at £461 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Brechin ScoP       Angus ScoCnty

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