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.
Herdmandston, an estate, with a mansion, in Salton parish, Haddingtonshire, on the right bank of the Tyne, 4 miles SW of Haddington. Modernised and enlarged, the house is partly of high antiquity, and down to the close of last century showed vestiges of battlements, turrets, and a fosse. It was long the residence of the Hon. Adam Gillies (1787-1842), a Senator of the College of Justice. In the park, close by, are remains of a chapel, erected by John de St Clair in the 13th century, and still used as the family burying vault. Henry St Clair, the founder of the line, obtained a charter of the estate from Richard de Morville in 1162. His descendant, Charles St Clair, in 1782 established his claim to the barony of Sinclair, created in 1489 and dormant since 1762; and his grandson, Charles William St Clair, fourteenth Baron Sinclair (b. 1831; suc. 1880), holds 4346 acres, valued at £5747 per annum, viz., 545 acres in Haddingtonshire (£1149), 1550 in Berwickshire (£3355), and 2251 in Roxburghshire (£1243).—Ord. Sur., sh. 33, 1863. See Nisbet House, and John Small's Castles and Mansions of the Lothians (Edinb. 1883).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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