Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Whitehill

Whitehill, a large Jacobean mansion in Carrington parish, Edinburghshire, near the right bank of Dalhousie Burn, 1 mile SSE of Hawthornden station. Built in 1844 from designs by W. Burn, it is the seat of Rt. Geo. Wardlaw-Ramsay, Esq. (b. 1852; suc. 1882).—Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1857. See Tillicoultry and Jn. 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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Feature Description: "a large Jacobean mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Carrington ScoP       Midlothian ScoCnty

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