Historic house in North-East Scotland
Entrance road to Elsick House James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife , in front of Elsick HouseElsick House is a historic house in Kincardineshire , North-East Scotland. It is situated in an agricultural area about two miles from the North Sea near the town of Newtonhill ; the Elsick Estate is situated within the watershed of the Burn of Elsick , a stream that traverses the estate. The house is located on the Elsick Estate (650 hectares (1,600 acres)),[ 1] seat of the Duke of Fife .[ 2] [ 3]
Early area history
Elsick House is located near the ancient Causey Mounth trackway , which road was constructed in medieval times to make passable this only available route across the coastal region of the Grampian Mounth connecting points south of Stonehaven to Aberdeen . This ancient drovers' road specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the present Bridge of Dee is situated) via Portlethen Moss , Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south.[ 4] William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the first battle of the Civil War in 1639.[ 5]
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References
^ Wightman, A., Who Owns Scotland , Edinburgh, 1996, p.86, ISBN 0-86241-585-3
^ Wightman, A., 1996, p.86
^ "Kincardineshire property ownerships: Elsick Estate" . Who Owns Scotland?. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 6 July 2007 .^ C.Michael Hogan, Causey Mounth , Megalithic Portal, ed. by Andy Burnham, 3 November 2007 ^ Watt, Archibald, Highways and Byways around Kincardineshire , Stonehaven Heritage Society (1985)
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