Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Philipstoun like this:

Philipstoun, a village in the W of Abercorn parish, Linlithgowshire, 3 miles E by N of Linlithgow. To the NE of it is Philipstoun House, the residence of Lieut.-Col. James Hare of Calder Hall (b. 1836; suc. 1878), the Earl of Hopetoun's factor, who holds 2373 acres in Midlothian, valued at £4181 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 32, 1857.

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Travel writing

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