Entrance road to Elsick House - geograph

Elsick House is a historic house in Kincardineshire, North-East Scotland. It is situated in an agricultural area about two miles from the

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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 (), and is the present family

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of the Duke of Fife.

Early area history

Elsick House is located near the ancient Causey Mounth trackway, which road was constructed in

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times to make passable this only available route across the

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al region of the Grampian Mounth connecting points south of

Stonehaven Stonehaven ( ) is a town on the northeast coast of Scotland, south of Aberdeen. It had a population of 11,177 at th2022 Census Stonehaven was formerly the county town of Kincardineshire, succeeding the now abandoned town of Kincardine, Aberd ...

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. This ancient

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specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the present Bridge of Dee is situated) via

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, Muchalls Castle and

to the south. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose when they led a

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army of 9000 men in the first battle of the Civil War in 1639.Watt, Archibald, ''Highways and Byways around Kincardineshire'', Stonehaven Heritage Society (1985)

External links

Official website

References

Country houses in Aberdeenshire {{Aberdeenshire-stub

Early area history

See also

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