Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Drygrange

Drygrange, an estate, with a mansion, in Melrose parish, Roxburghshire, on the right bank of Leader Water, ¾ mile above its influx to the Tweed, and 2½ miles ENE of Melrose. The mansion, a fine old building, amid ancestral trees, occupies the site of the chief granary of Melrose Abbey. Granted by the Abbey to David Lithgow in the reign of James V., the estate has come, through several hands, to Sir George Hector Leith-Buchanan, seventh Bart. since 1775 (b. 1833; suc. 1842), who married in 1861 the only daughter of the late Thomas Tod, Esq. of Drygrange, and who holds 1315 acres in the shire, valued at £1724 per annum. Drygrange Bridge, across the Tweed near the Leader's confluence, takes over the road from Melrose and St Boswells to Lander, and commands a beautiful view of-

Ercildoune and Cowdenknowes,
where Homes had ance commanding;
And Drygrange wi' the milk-white ewes,
' Twixt Tweed and Leader standing.'


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

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Feature Description: "an estate, with a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Melrose ScoP       Roxburghshire ScoCnty

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