A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Dunecht, a seat of the Earl of Crawford in Echt parish, Aberdeenshire, 5 ½ miles SSW of Kintore station, and 12 W of Aberdeen, under which there is a post office of Dunecht. Originally a Grecian edifice of 1820, it has received a number of additions, the latest and ost important that of 1877-81, from designs by the late Mr G. E. Street, R.A. Among its more noteworthy features are the observatory, the library, and the private chapel, from the vault beneath which, in the summer of 1881, was stolen the body of Alexander William Lindsay (1812-80), twenty-fifth Earl of Craw ford since 1398 and eighth Earl of Balcarres since 1651, who was author of works on the Lindsay family, the Mar peerage, Etruscan inscriptions, etc. His son and successor, James Ludovic Lindsay (b. 1847), who is president of the Royal Astronomical Society, holds 8855 acres in the shire, valued at £6160 per annum. See Crawford and Balcarres.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Administrative units: | Echt ScoP Aberdeenshire ScoCnty |
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