OS1/14/9/19
List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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AUCHTERHOUSE [village] | Auchterhouse Auchterhouse Auchterhouse |
John Fenton Revd [Reverend] H. A. Lyell David Buchan |
049 | [situation] About 20 chains S. [South] From Dundee & Newtyle Railway The old Manor house of the Parish. A large handsome residence and grounds. The property of Lord Airlie and tenanted by C. W. Kerr Esq. This house is not considered to be much older than 200 years, but it is evident that there was a baronial residence here as early as the days of Wallace and Bruce, of which perhaps the Wallace Tower is the remains |
WALLACE TOWER (Remains of) | Wallace Tower Wallace Tower Wallace Tower |
John Fenton David Buchan Revd [Reverend] H. A. Lyell |
049 | [situation] About a chain E. [East] from Auchterhouse The remains of a very old Castle in a ruinous state, with great thickness of wall, without roof or divisions of any kind situate on the grounds and near the Manor house. It is 10 feet high, but must originally be much higher |
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[Page] 19Ph. [Parish] of Auchterhouse -- Sheet 49 No 6 Trace 6
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