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Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow And Company, Shipbuilding Yard
Shipyard (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow And Company, Shipbuilding Yard
Classification Shipyard (20th Century)
Canmore ID 44201
Site Number NS56NW 41
NGR NS 5230 6766
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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SC 797414
Scanned image of Luftwaffe vertical air photograph of the south side of the River Clyde, Glasgow.
Records of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Second World War Aerial Reconnaissance
1939
© Courtesy of HES. Records of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe), Second World War Aerial Reconnaissance
DP 160915
Interior. Central Yard Steel preparation workshop. View of Hugh Smith 600 Ton rolling machine and job crane (maximum plate width 9.14m, plant no. 5569) from North West.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160919
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End. General view from South West of North and South BAy (originally 1906) with MG Corta CNC plasma burner right foreground and two MG 3 (CNC Plasma) burning beds to the left. Plasma burners are used to cut or weld metal using a high speed inert gas (such as compressed air). Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. The Crane on the right is a 7.5 Tonne Matterson Electric Overhead Traveller (or EOT, istalled 1995). The two beyond are 5 Ton Arrol EOT (Installed 1996).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160925
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. Stanchions dividing North and South Bays at the West end with integral EOT crane rails. These sanchions date from 1906.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160929
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1906 South Bay, East End and 18950s south Bay West end junction. View of Haemmerlie Guillotine machine. (maximum plate width 3.05m).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160932
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay (1950s) East End. General view from South East.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160939
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. General view from North East. The junction between the 1950s extension (nearest the camera) and the original 1906 boiler shop clearly shown. Note the remnants of window voussoirs middle of the image. The wall below has been remodelled.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160944
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1950s extension). View of Hugh Smith S.F.B truedge planer machine.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160951
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160953
Central Yard, south wall, west end. General view of workshop from South East showing the remnants of the Travelling electric crane gantry and uprights (painted blue, left) from 1906 when this area was an open yard. It was later covered over and became the covered steel stockyard where the plate metal was kept out of the elements. This shed has since been demolished (in 2013), revealing the remnants of the original layout. The saw toothed roof of the original 1906 boiler shop is visible behind (latterly the Plate Preparation Shop).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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SC 603749
Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow and Company Shipbuilding Yard View from River Clyde
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
13/7/1967
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
DP 160930
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, 1950s South and North BAys. General view from South West (called the South East Pend). Extreme right is a 5 Tonne Arrol EOT crane installed in 1996. A MAtterson 7.5 Tonne EOT Pendant Crane is on the left, Installed 1995) with another Matteson 7.5 Tonne EOT crane (North Bay Centre, instaled 1982).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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SC 1685621
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
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SC 1685622
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
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SC 1685645
Glasgow, 739 South Street, North British Engine Works. View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
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SC 1685646
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 602674
Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow and Company, Shipbuilding Yard View from ESE showing S half of NE front
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
28/10/1967
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
DP 160934
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160941
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s), East End. View of magnetic lift attached to a 7500Kg crane and travelling overhead crane to which it is attached. The operators cab is on the right.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160947
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of Panel Production Line. (installed 1995).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160950
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685815
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 450463
Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow and Company Shipbuilding Yard General view
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
9/1974
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
SC 1257243
Yarrow and Co. Shipbuilding Yard, South Street and Barclay, Curle and Co. Ltd. Elderslie Shipyard, Glasgow. Oblique aerial photograph taken facing north.
Records of Aerofilms Ltd, aerial photographers, Bristol, England
6/7/1931
© HES (Aerofilms Collection)
DP 160921
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of annexe to North West of main shed from South West. One of the two plasma CNC burnres just visible on right. The frame with original 1906 brick infill visible top right corner.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160922
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane attached to a 7.5 Tonne, Mattreson semi Goliath crane. This woud have moved plate steel from the Stockyard (now demolished) into the Preparation Shed and to the plasma burners for welding etc.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160924
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane for moving sheet metal from now demolishedStockyard to the plasma burners which are out of shot to the right of the camera.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160926
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End. View of MG Corta CNC plasma burner (maximum 11m by 2m cutting bed area, installed 1995).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160931
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of magnetic crane and 7.5 Tonne Matterson EOT Pendant crane (installed 1995). Also, a Hammerle Press Brake (a mchine tool designed to bend sheet metal using dies, 500 Tonnes maximum pressure).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160940
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay. General view from North West showing Hugh Smith 600 Ton rolling machine (left) and vertical press.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160943
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1950s extension). View of Hugh Smith S.F.B truedge planer machine.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160946
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of Panel Production Line. (installed 1995).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160954
General view of workshop from South West. Central Yard, south wall, west end. General view of workshop from South West showing the remnants of the Travelling electric crane gantry uprights (painted blue) from 1906 when this area was an open yard. It was later covered over and became the covered steel stockyard where the plate metal was kept out of the elements. This shed has since been demolished (in 2013), revealing the remnants of the original layout. The saw toothed roof of the original 1906 boiler shop is visible behind (latterly the Plate Preparation Shop) with the 1950s two bay extension beyond. The MAchine HAl is on the right.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685620
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2708091
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160916
Interior. Central Yard. Steel preparation workshop, East end of North Bay. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne roller with Press to right, from North West.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160917
Interior. Central Yard. Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. General view from South showing multiple ridged roof , north and west wall of former boiler shop of 1907. The frame and roof structure and stanchions appear to be original, although there is later cladding and remodelling of the west wall. On right, two CNC plasma burners for welding metal sheets, and in background, a 7.5Tonne EOT Crane (Via Nova, instaled 1982) and a 7.5Tonne Matterson Semi Goliath Crane background left (installed 1982) with attached magnetic lifts for moving metal sheets fro the steel stockyard to the plasma burners..
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160937
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith vertical press machine (installed 2001).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160942
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, West End (1950s extension). View of Hugh Smith S.F.B truedge planer machine.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160949
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160952
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop North Bay, West End. View of CNC plasma burners from West. Note roof change with 1950s extension in background.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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SC 1685638
Glasgow, Scotstoun, Yarrow Shipyard. General oblique aerial view of Graving Docks - centre NS 517 682.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
c. 1988
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SC 1685640
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
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Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow And Company, Shipbuilding Yard, NS56NW 41, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
c. 1958
© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Collection)
SC 2708093
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160914
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop. General view from East of East end of North Bay. This is the steel preparation or plate cutting shop is about 590 feet in length. The east end of the north bay structure dates from the 1950s at its East end and the West end (saw-tooth roofed building, formerly the boiler shop with its south west/east oriented single pitch roofed range) dates from 1907.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160918
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End. General view from North West of North and South BAy (originally 1906) with two MG 3 Corta CNC plasma burners left foreground and one MGCorta (CNC Plasma) burning bed to the right. Plasma burners are used to cut or weld metal using a high speed inert gas (such as compressed air). Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. On the extreme right is a magnetic lift (installed 2000).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160938
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay, East End, south wall (1950s extension).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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SC 1685618
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685641
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2708092
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 602676
Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow and Company, Shipbuilding Yard View from ESE showing N half of NE front
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
28/10/1967
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
DP 160920
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, West End, South Bay. Also note the original 1906 stanchions with integral crane rail. The 7.5 Tonne Matterson Electric Overhead Traveller (or EOT, istalled 1995) and two 5 Ton Arrol EOT (Installed 1996) travelled along this. To the left later addition which in parts incorporated the former open yard electric traveller crane rail. This open yard was later closed over and became the steel stockyard.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160923
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop North Bay, West End. View of CNC plasma burners from West. Note roof change with 1950s extension in background.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160927
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End. View of two, MG3 (CNC plasma) burning beds (one 11m by 8m and one 13m by 8m cutting bed area) from South South East.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160933
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160935
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith 600 Tonne rolling machine with Paterson Hughes 3 Tonne jib crane.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160936
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay (1950s) East End. View of Hugh Smith vertical press machine (installed 2001).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
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DP 160945
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay 1(1906). View of Haemmerlie Guillotine machine (installed 1995).
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
DP 160948
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, North Bay, West End (1906). View of CNC plasma burner.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685619
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685639
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685644
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685647
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 2708094
Oblique aerial view of Yarrows shipbuilding yard.
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
31/8/1998
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 602675
Glasgow, 1465 South Street, Yarrow and Company, Shipbuilding Yard View from E showing part of NE front
Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
28/10/1967
© HES. Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume
DP 160928
Interior. Central Yard, Steel preparation workshop, South Bay (1906). View of light metal manufacture Trumpf laser (with two burning beds 13m by 3m maximum cutting bed area) workstation from North East. Note the steel frame with brick infill construction. This workstation hsa been created by slapping through the 1906 original south exterior wall of the former boiler shop.
Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
6/9/2013
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685642
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
SC 1685643
View of Shipyard - centre NS 525 676
RCAHMS Aerial Photography
1988
© Crown Copyright: HES
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Renfrew (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
The former Yarrows Shipyard (now BAe systems Central Yard, NS56NW 41.01) was begun in 1906 after Yarrow and Company (founded 1865 at Folly Wall, Poplar, London) outgrew their London Yard in Cubitt Town in 1898 and moved to greenfield site at Scotstoun Glasgow. The original 1906 saw-toothed roofed, brick and steel-framed Boiler House (remodelled) and part of the adjacent open steelyard gantry survives, along with the wet dock (originally covered, now open).
The current yard has over the years subsumed Elderslie Shipyard (now BAe Dock Yard, acquired 1970s formerly owned by Barclay Curle to the west of the Yarrows Yard). Elderslie Shipyard contains three dry docks of 1904, 1933 and 1965. The 1904 dock was covered in the 1970s along with a large fabrication hall demolished in 2008. Blytheswood Shipyard (1919, now forms the east part of the Central Yard and East Yard) was acquired in 1965.
Yarrows Co. Ltd also devised the Coventry Ordnance Works venture in 1905 and built a factory in 1910 in Scotstoun to the east.
Visited by RCAHMS (MMD) 6 September 2013.
