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Abbotsford from the gardens

DP 448227

Description Abbotsford from the gardens

Date 1/1/1878 to 31/12/1878

Collection Records of the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number DP 448227

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content A substantial Scottish baronial style house, with stone and brickwork walls, set in formal gardens with railed arcades and ornamental walls. There are topiary and specimen trees in the pleasance. A baronial style mansion house erected on the river Tweed by Sir Walter Scott in 1817-1821. Scott called the house Abbotsford after the monks from nearby Melrose Abbey, who at one time had a crossing there. Most of the Waverley novels were written here.

Accession Number 2024/57

External Reference 000-000-152-315-C, 000-000-152-315-R

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2770988

File Format (JPG) JPEG bitmap

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