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Glen, an estate, with a mansion, in Traquair parish, Peeblesshire, near the left bank of Quair Water, 5 miles SW by S of Innerleithen. Sold for £10,500 in 1796, and for £33,140 in 1852, the estate is now the property of Charles Tennant, Esq. (b. 1823; suc. 1878), who has sat as Liberal member for Peebles and Selkirk shires since 1880, and who holds 3500 acres in the county, valued at £897 per annum. The mansion, erected in 1854, and enlarged in 1874, is a stately Scottish Baronial edifice, from designs by the late David Bryce, with beautiful gardens, vineries, an artificial lake of 3 acres, etc. A short way higher up is the 'frightful chasm' of GlenDean's Banks, which, ¾ mile long, is flanked on either hand by lofty shelving cliffs, and takes up a mountain footpath into Yarrow.—Ord. Sur. , sh. 24, 1864.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "an estate, with a mansion" (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels") |
| Administrative units: | Traquair ScoP Peebles Shire ScoCnty |
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