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A vision of Britain through time
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Philorth, a mansion in Fraserburgh parish, NE Aberdeenshire, 2 miles S by E of the town. What looks to be the oldest part of it bears date 1666; but additions and alterations have been made from time to time, the latest in 1874. There are some fine old hardwood trees around the house, and extensive plantations have been formed in the course of the last hundred years. The estate has belonged to the Frasers since the latter half of the 14th century; and a prophecy, falsely ascribed to Thomas the Rhymer, predicts that
as lang as there s a Cock o' the North,
There'll be a Fraser in Philorth
In 1669 Sir Alexander Fraser of Philorth succeeded his cousin, Alexander Abernethy, as tenth Lord Saltoun; and his descendant, Alexander Fraser, present and seventeenth Baron Saltoun since 1445 (b. 1820; suc. 1853), holds 10, 082 acres in the shire, valued at £10, 967 per annum. See Fraserburgh and Salton.—Ord. Sur., sh. 97, 1876.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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