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Old Photographs Forest Of Birse Castle Scotland
Old photograph of Forest of Birse Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built about 1600 for the Gordons of Cluny who owned the surrounding Forest of Birse. The Bishops of Aberdeen, who had a grant of the forest as early as 1242, also had a hunting seat in the forest, believed to be on the site of this castle. The Forest of Birse consisted of twenty-four towns, or farms, eighteen of which between 1574 and 1636 came into the hands of Gordon of Cluny. About 1610 this family, by building a castle, encroached upon the forest. The inhabitants of the other six farms claimed rights over the whole forest about 1640 they vindicated their rights by burning the castle and turning the tilled land into commonage and so held it for eighty years.
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