Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Mount-Melville

Mount-Melville, a mansion in Cameron parish, Fife, 2 ½ miles SW of St Andrews. Its late owner, John Whyte-Melville, Esq. (1797-1883), held 2940 acres in the shire, valued at £6150 per annum. His son, Major George John Whyte-Melville (1821-78), was author of the Interpreter and many other popular novels. See St Andrews.—Ord. Sur., sh. 49, 1865.


(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: Cameron ScoP       Fife ScoCnty

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