Old Photograph Balbithan House Scotland

Old photograph of Balbithan House located four miles South of Inverurie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The grounds once belonged to the Abbey of Lindores, but by 1490 the Chalmers family had acquired them. An earlier House of Balbithan, of which there is now no trace, stood above the river Don, opposite Kintore. Jacobites are supposed to have used the tower in 1746, after Culloden. The Chalmers sold the property to James Balfour, an Edinburgh merchant, in 1696. After a brief period, from 1699 to 1707, in the ownership of the Hays, it came to be owned by a branch of the Gordons until 1859.



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