Dalhousie Castle
Dalhousie Castle is a castle in Midlothian , Scotland . It is near the town of Bonnyrigg , eight miles south of Edinburgh . It served as the ancestral home of the Earl of Dalhousie's family until the beginning of the 20th century .
history
As early as 1140, Simundus de Ramseia, a French nobleman, acquired land in the current area of the castle. In 1280 one of his descendants built the first dungeon . The oldest buildings that still exist today were built around 1450. To build the drum tower , for example, stones from the Esk , a river on whose bank the castle stands, were used. In the past, access was only possible via a drawbridge over the moat , which was filled in at the beginning of the 20th century. Around 1635, William Ramsay, 1st Earl of Dalhousie had a curtain built. Under George Ramsay, 8th Earl of Dalhousie , the castle was extensively remodeled. These conversions were, however, already dismantled by the son of the eighth Earl, George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie , with the help of the architect William Burn , and the original state in the style of the Scottish Baronial was largely restored. At the beginning of the 20th century, the family of the Earl of Dalhousie moved the ancestral home to Brechin Castle . From then on, Dalhousie Castle was leased several times . Among other things, it housed a boarding school . It has been used as a hotel since 1972. On June 26, 2004, a fire broke out in the hotel and caused considerable damage. In April 2011 Andrew Parker and his wife Gina bought the hotel for an unspecified sum.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Escape" suplement, Sunday Telegraph August 16th 2009, p. 10
- ↑ oV : Von Essen's Dalhousie Castle bought by Robert Parker . In: ConferenceNews . March 15, 2012 ( online [accessed July 12, 2013]).
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Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '37.9 " N , 3 ° 4' 55.9" W.