Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Lauchope or Lachop House

Lauchope or Lachop House, an old mansion in Bothwell parish, Lanarkshire, 1¼ mile ENE of Holytown. A tower-house, with walls of remarkable thickness, it was the seat of a very ancient family, the parent-stem of the Muirheads; and gave refuge, on the eve of his flight from Scotland, to Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh, Murray's assassin at Linlithgow (1570).—Ord. Sur., sh. 31, 1867.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "an old mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Bothwell ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty
Place names: LACHOP HOUSE     |     LAUCHOPE     |     LAUCHOPE OR LACHOP HOUSE

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