Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Castle -Forbes

Castle -Forbes, a mansion in Keig parish, central Aberdeenshire, 3 miles N of Whitehouse station, this being 26¾ WNW of Aberdeen. Standing on the left bank of the Don, on the finely-wooded slope of the SW base of Bennochie, it is a good modern granite edifice, designed in the Scottish Baronial style by the late Archibald Simpson, Esq. Its owner, Horace-Courtenay Forbes, nineteenth Baron Forbes since 1442 (b. 1829; suc. 1868), is premier baron of Scotland, and twentythird in direct descent from John de Forbes (flo. 1200); he holds in the shire 13,621 acres, valued at £5676 per annum.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Keig ScoP       Aberdeenshire ScoCnty

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