Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Pavilion

Pavilion, a mansion in Melrose parish, Roxburghshire, on the left bank of the Tweed, near the influx of Allan Water, 2½ miles NW of Melrose town. It was the Scottish seat of the Lords Somerville, the nineteenth and last of whom died in 1870; and it now belongs to the seventeenth Lord's daughter, the Hon. Mrs Henry, who holds 4746 acres in Roxburgh and Berwick shires, valued at £2531 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 25, l865.


(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: Melrose ScoP       Roxburghshire ScoCnty

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