A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Monteviot, a seat of the Marquis of Lothian, in Crailing parish, Roxburghshire, 2 miles E by N of Ancrum and 3 N by W of Jedburgh. It stands near the left bank of the winding Tweed, at the southern base of Peniel Heugh (774 feet), in a park of singular beauty, and is itself an imposing Gothic edifice, rebuilt in the course of the present century. At Monteviot died Miss Jean Elliot (1727-1805), author of the Flowers of the Forest, it then being occupied by her brother, Admiral Elliot. At Harestanes, within the park but in Ancrum parish, were remains of a stone circle till towards the close of last century; and a neighbouring 'serpentmound,' being explored by Mr J. S. Phené, F.S.A., in 1872, was found to entomb two skeletons. See New. Battle and Crailing.—Ord. Sur., sh. 17, 1864.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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