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.
Haystoun, a farmhouse in Peebles parish, Peeblesshire, amid fine old trees on a knoll overhanging the right bank of Glensax Burn, 2 miles S by E of Peebles town. Built in 1660, and forming three sides of a quadrangle, it is a good example of an old-fashioned country-seat; and over its chief entrance has a tablet, sculptured with the armorial bearings of the Hays, who acquired the estate in the course of the 16th and 17th centuries. Its present proprietor, Sir Robert Hay of Smithfield and Haystoun, eighth Bart. since 1635 (b. 1825; suc. 1867), holds 9755 acres, valued at £4515 per annum. The reach of Glensax Burn through the grounds is often called Haystoun Burn.—Ord. Sur., sh. 24, 1864.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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