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Loanend, Croft Of Simon Ley
Cottage (Period Unassigned), Croft (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Loanend, Croft Of Simon Ley
Classification Cottage (Period Unassigned), Croft (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 173230
Site Number NJ62SW 137
NGR NJ 6033 2401
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/173230
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Premnay
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ62SW 137 6033 2401
Nothing is now visible of the steading of the croft of Simon Ley, which stood in a cultivated field about 100m W of Loanend farmsteading (NJ62SW 104). It is depicted on a late 18th-century farm plan of the Mains of Leslie (SRO: RHP 5199/4) on which it comprised two buildings, presumably a cottage and a byre/barn, and a garden. The croft extended to just over 5 acres (c.2ha) of arable ground and a little under 4? acres (1.6ha) of pasture. All traces of the croft appear to have been removed before 1870 and neither the buildings nor the earlier field boundaries are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1870, sheet xliv).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 26 May 1999.
