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The British Wool Society grazed sheep on the island in the 1790s and the land was farmed for many years until the last farmer, Peter Hogg, died in 1904. [11] Throughout most of its history, Cramond Island was used for farming, especially sheep-farming, [2] and perhaps served as a fishing outpost as well.
The island was also used for a construction office and the castle buildings were re-roofed to accommodate workers. Some of the stone from the former castle was used to build the caissons of the bridge. [2] [53] Cramond Island in the Almond estuary is a tidal island that is 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in extent and is currently part of the Dalmeny ...
The Inglis Baronetcy, of Cramond, Edinburgh, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia with remainder to heirs male whatsoever, on 22 March 1687 for James Inglis. [ 1 ] The Patent is recorded in the Great Seal register at NRS C2/70/288 with remainder being to the "heredes mascules in perpetuum" or "heirs male in perpetuity" of the 1st Baronet.
But his story about endowing 200 acres and eight cows to start the first free school nearly four centuries ago in the Virginia colonies caught her eye. “I read this little bit (and) I thought
Cramond Roman Fort is a Roman-Era archaeological site at Cramond, Edinburgh, Scotland. [1] The settlement may be the "Rumabo" listed in the 7th-century Ravenna Cosmography . The fort was established around 140 AD and occupied until around 170 AD, with a further period of occupation from around 208 to 214 AD. [ 2 ]
Cramond is also where the House of Shaws is located in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped. Cramond is also mentioned in Ian Rankin's Fleshmarket Close. Cramond features briefly in a series 2 episode of the Paul Temple (TV series) called 'Double Vision' filmed in 1970. More recently Cramond featured in Young Sherlock Holmes: Fire Storm.
Interest in the island's history began to surface again in 2022 when it was announced the Carleton Island Villa, one of the most well-known landmarks on the St. Lawrence River, although in ...
March – Leonard Calvert leads the first group of settlers to the new English colony of Maryland in North America 5 May – A royal proclamation confines flying of the Union Flag (the first recorded reference to it by this name) to the king's ships; English merchant vessels are to fly the flag of England.