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Balbirnie Park, Balbirnie Mains, Dairy

Dairy (19th Century)

Site Name Balbirnie Park, Balbirnie Mains, Dairy

Classification Dairy (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Balbirnie Estate; Balbirnie House Policies

Canmore ID 106940

Site Number NO20SE 93.04

NGR NO 28652 02625

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/106940

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Markinch
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Kirkcaldy
  • Former County Fife

Architecture Notes

NO20SE 93.04 2866 0262 Balbirnie Mains Farm, Dairy

REFERENCE : Scottish Record Office (Probably West Lodge, by date)

Proposed lodge to be built (at Balbirnie). Letter from (General) Robert Balfour to John Bruce ...'the stone of my quarry is too soft a nature for pillars of a gate and some little ornamental work I require, I have to request you would allow me to get some stones for this purpose from a new quarry found on Greenhill ...about a mile NW of Nuthill House'.

28 May 1823 GD 152/218/5/Bundle 13/7

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