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Kincardine Castle is a Victorian country house in Royal Deeside, Scotland. Formerly known as Kincardine House, it is the private home of the Bradford family and also operates as a hospitality venue. The house sits 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north-east of the village of Kincardine O'Neil, and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) east of Aboyne on the north side of ...
Kincardine Castle is a 19th-century manor house near Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The building lies 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) south-west of the town, on the Ruthven Water . The Gothic house was constructed in 1801–1803, and is a category B listed building .
Old Kincardine Castle was a 13th-century castle near Auchterarder in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The castle was located on a promontory overlooking the glen. Sir David de Graham of Cardross received the lands of Kincardine from the Earl of Strathearn and started construction of the castle shortly afterwards. It formed a quadrangle, surrounded ...
In 1296, King John Balliol wrote a letter of surrender from Kincardine Castle to Edward I of England after a short war that marked the beginning of the Wars of Scottish Independence. A charter granted to the burgh of Kincardine in 1532 noted the town's established role in hosting the shire's courts. [6] However, by 1600 the town was in decline.
Kincardine (/ k ɪ n ˈ k ɑːr d ɪ n / kin-KAR-din; Scottish Gaelic: Cinn Chàrdainn [2]) or Kincardine-on-Forth is a town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland. The town was given the status of a burgh of barony in 1663. [3] It was at one time a reasonably prosperous minor port.
By 1532, the castle was a secondary residence of William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal, and appears to have been at the centre of the small town, occupying about two hundred yards between gates on the main road. [3] The Earl petitioned for Kincardine to be declared as a free burgh and county town for the Mearns. [4]
Tulliallan Castle. Tulliallan Castle is a large house in Kincardine, Fife, Scotland.It is the second structure to have the name, and is a mixture of Gothic and Italian style architecture set amid some 90 acres (36 hectares) of parkland just north of where the Kincardine Bridge spans the Firth of Forth. [1]
Map of Scotland showing the present-day committee area of Kincardine and Mearns. Kincardine and Mearns is one of six area committees of the Aberdeenshire council area in Scotland. It has a population of 38,506 (2001 Census). There are significant natural features in this district including rivers, forests, mountains and bogs (known locally as ...