Mains Of Leslie, Mains Croft
Cottage(S) (Period Unassigned), Croft (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mains Of Leslie, Mains Croft
Classification Cottage(S) (Period Unassigned), Croft (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 174022
Site Number NJ62SW 161
NGR NJ 6013 2450
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/174022
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Leslie (Gordon)
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ62SW 161 6013 2450
Nothing is now visible of two buildings and three small enclosures which are depicted on a late18th-century farm plan of the Mains of Leslie (SRO: RHP 5199/4) on the left (W) bank of the White Burn, about 160m S of Mains Leslie farmsteading (NJ62SW 103). The buildings and enclosures were situated between the burn and an area of cultivated ground, the main part of which was a field of 4 acres (c.1.6ha) called Mains Croft. Whilst it is possible that the Mains Croft was once a separate holding, by this time the field was a part of the infield of Leslie Mains and it is not listed on the map as a sublet.
Neither the buildings nor the enclosures and the earlier field boundaries are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1870, sheet xliv), and they had presumably been removed by 1870.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 26 May 1999.
