Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Park

Park, a mansion in Ordiquhill parish, Banffshire, 13/8 mile SSE of Cornhill station, this being 8½ miles SW by W of Banff. It was enlarged in 1829, and is a spacious and handsome edifice. Its owner, Lachlan Duff GordonDuff, Esq. (b. 1817; suc. 1855), Liberal M. P. for Banffshire 1857-61, holds 13,053 acres in the shire, valued at £7418 per annum. See Botriphnie.—Ord. Sur., sh. 86, 1876.


(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")
Administrative units: Ordiquhill ScoP       Banffshire ScoCnty

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