Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Milton-Lockhart

Milton-Lockhart, a mansion in Carluke parish, Lanarkshire, near the right bank of the winding river Clyde, 3 miles WSW of Carluke town. A modern edifice, in the old Scottish Baronial style, after designs by W. Burn, it has grounds of singular beauty, backed by deep ravines and wooded hills. The estate, which belonged to the Whitefords in the 16th and 17th centuries, is held now by Major-Gen. David Blair Lockhart (b. 1829; suc. 1876), owner of l059 acres in the shire, valued at £2582 per annum. Milton Bridge, over the Clyde, is a three-arch structure, on the model of the old bridge of Bothwell, and was erected early in the present century.—Ord. Sur., sh. 23, 1865.


(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: Carluke ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty

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