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COCKPEN [parish] Cockpen
Cockpen
Cockpen
W. Renwick
J. Haig
Co. [County] Map
013 A farm house & offices with a farm of land attachd [attached] occupied by & the property of the Earl of Dalhouse.
COCKPEN HOUSE (Site of) Site of Cockpen
Site of Cockpen
Cockpen House
W. Renwick
J. Hays
Co. [County] Map
Stat. [Statistical] Acct. [Account] 1845
013 The site of a Mansion house the property of the Earl of Dalhousie no part of the building remains of the place where it stood is now under cultivation, a portion of sunk wall of a pump house is still pointed out as being in connection with it. The song " The Laird of Cockpen" was a composition made upon a former proprietor.

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Parish of Cockpen
" The South Esk after leaving Dalhousie Castle passes close by the romantic place where Cockpen House stood, the mansion of the Laird of Cockpen abut a furlong to the east of Dalhousie Castle". Stat. [Statistical] Acct. [Account] 1845

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