A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Newton House, a mansion in Alves parish, Elginshire, 3 ¾ miles W by N of Elgin. Erected in l793, and enlarged and remodelled in 1852, it is a fine Baronial edifice, whose park stretches southward to the wooded Knock (335 feet), on which a three-story octagonal tower was built in 1827 to the memory of the Duke of York. The estate was purchased from the Hon. Arthur Duff in 1793 by George Forteath, Esq.; and his grandnephew, Frederick Prescott Forteath, Esq. (b. 1833; suc. 1866), holds 243 acres in the shire, valued at £477 per annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 95, 1876.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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