Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blairburn

Blairburn, a village in Culross parish, Perthshire, adjacent to the river Forth, in the vicinity of Culross town. Blair Castle, a handsome modern mansion (Mrs Gallwey), 1¼ mile W of Culross, occupies the site of a mansion said to have been built about the time of the Reformation by Archbishop Hamilton of St Andrews.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Culross ScoP       Perthshire ScoCnty
Place: Blairburn

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