Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Woodville

Woodville, a mansion in Colinton parish, Edinburghshire, ½ mile SW of Colinton village. It was the home, from 1831, of the Rev. Arch. Alison (1757-1831), author of Essays on Taste; and at it died his eldest son, Professor Wm. Pulteney Alison (1790-1859).—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
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