OS1/14/9/19

List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
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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