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20231101.en_13200316_15 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Surveys carried out by the Scottish Wildlife Trust and others have shown that the park also has a good variety of mushroom, bracket, jelly and other species of fungi. The park has a good gall diversity, such as knopper on acorns, tongue on alders, robin's pincushion or rose bedeguar gall on wild rose, cola nut on oak a... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_16 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The 'Old Wood' containing the ice house has a good plant diversity due to the fact that it is long established and relatively undisturbed, unlike the park's plantations which are of a comparatively recent origin. Chapelholms wood shows a similar high biodiversity. Plants such as dog's mercury, tussock grass, bluebells ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_17 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The park is acting as a part of the conservation effort to ensure the survival of three species of the rare indigenous and endemic trees commonly called the Arran whitebeams, native to that island and found nowhere else in the World. Chapelholms Wood has been designated as a Wildlife Site by the Scottish Wildlife Trust... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_18 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The original castle of the Eglintons may have been near Kidsneuk, Bogside (NS 309 409) where a substantial earth mound or motte stands and excavated pottery was found tentatively dating the site to the thirteenth century. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_19 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The earliest known castle, which even then was the chief seat of the Montgomeries, was burned by the Cunninghames of Glencairn in 1528 and rebuilt afterwards. The mill was also destroyed as well as the muniment chests containing the Montgomerie charters, etc. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_20 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The older castle was completely demolished in 1796; having been first modified by the 9th Earl who commissioned William Adam (1689–1748) to build a kitchen block and associated back court. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_21 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | An 1840 engraving shows three arches, and other differences to the later Tournament bridge built further downstream. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_22 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The usual spelling is 'Eglinton', however Eglintoun, Eglintoune or Eglintown are encountered in old books and maps. The Eglinton Castle ruins, despite their appearance, are of a relatively modern building, the mansion having been completed as recently as 1802. Eglinton was the most notable post-Adam Georgian castle in ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_23 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | One of the side wings of the 1802 castle was known to the servants as Bedlam, this being where the Montgomerie's children had their rooms. The central saloon of the castle was in diameter and reached up the whole height of the castle, some . The Category B Listed 1802 castle was un-roofed in 1929, being in poor struct... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_24 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Amongst many items of interest, the castle contained a chair built from the oak timbers of Alloway kirk and the back of the chair was inlaid with a brass plaque which bore the whole of Burn's poem 'Tam o' Shanter'. This was sold, together with much of the family paintings, the Earl's suit of armour, etc. at the 1925 sa... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_25 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | 4 Commando and the Royal Engineers used it for exercises during the second world war, destroying two of the towers, and it was also used for naval gunnery practice. In the 1950s further damage was done and the remains were finally demolished to the level they are today (2007) in 1973. The house reputedly had 365 window... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_26 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Groome in 1903 had stated that "Everything about the castle contributes to an imposing display of splendid elegance and refined taste." An escape tunnel is said to run from the old castle to the area of the rockery on the castle lawns. The appearance of the old waterfall may have inspired this story as it looks like a ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_27 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The park was used as a training camp; for vehicle maintenance and as a preparation depot for the Normandys and North Africa landings during World War II. The remnants of this era are visible in the form of Nissen huts, still in use today and the foundations of other wartime buildings. The army left the estate in a very... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_28 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The architect had been John Paterson (1796–1802) and John Baxter designed the Redburn Gateway & lodges; the cast-iron Tournament bridge may have been originally designed by the famous architect David Hamilton. An older bridge with three arches, the one actually used for the 1839 Tournament, had stood further up the riv... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_29 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The landscape gardens, were designed by John Tweedie (1775–1862), and laid out for Alexander, the 10th Earl, together with extensive tree plantings. The earl was a noted agricultural reformer and pioneer. The landscaping works were finished by 1801 and replaced an older style, now represented by the replanted Belvedere... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_30 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | At their peak the policies (from the Latin word 'politus' meaning embellished) and gardens of the estate covered 1346 acres (1500 Scots acres), made up from of grassy glades, 650 of plantations, of gardens, etc. A high stone wall surrounded much of the park, which had one six-mile (10 km) long carriage drive and anot... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_31 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The estate offices, coach house and stables block were probably built in the 18th century by John Paterson, however it is suggested that the architect was Robert Adam. Old photographs show that a pair of matching entrances to the central 'archway' existed, but were replaced by windows and walling at an unknown date. Th... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_32 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A bowling green, a little to the west of the Tournament Bridge in what is now the Clement Wilson gardens, was said to be the finest in Britain; a bowling house also existed. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A tennis court was situated on the grass to the west of the castle. A deer park surrounded the castle and this is recorded as having contained many fine old trees and unusually, a 'Deer shelter'. The whole deer herd from Auchans Castle near Dundonald was removed in the 1820s by the Earl of Eglinton to the Eglinton Cast... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_34 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Other features in the grounds of the estate were the 'Formal Gardens' lying between the walled garden and Lady Jane's cottage, commemorative marble pillar, Eglinton house (previously the 'Garden Cottage'), Weirstone house, the Fish Pond, the Redburn 'Dower' House (demolished circa 2006), Eglinton Mains farm (home of th... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_35 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The curtain walls of the Walled Kitchen Garden with two roofless Gazebos or temples survive. One was used as a resting parlour and the other was an aviary. They were both topped with statues as shown in surviving photographs. A handsome gate of cast-iron stood at the end of the bridge and its pilasters had two of the f... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_36 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Lugton Water was diverted in the 1790s to run behind the Garden Cottage, rather than in front of it. Five ponds were created by weirs. The gardens, amongst other things, possessed a peach house, an orangery, a vinery, a melon house and a mushroom house. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_38 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The earliest known reference to croquet in Scotland is the booklet called The Game of Croquet, its Laws and Regulations which was published in the middle 1860s for the proprietor of Eglinton Castle. On the page facing the title page is a picture of Eglinton Castle with a game of "croquet" in full swing. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_40 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A highly unusual landscape feature of some considerable size was laid out as a bilaterally symmetrical design near Benslie hamlet and is shown on the 1750s Roy map. It lies outside the ornamental woodlands and has the 'appearance' of the foundations of a large building, although it was made up of trees. This odd shape... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_41 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The ruined castle is listed C (S) and the Rackets Hall is listed B. The Tournament Bridge by David Hamilton, which has lost its original Gothic parapet, is listed B. The offices and stables built around 1800 are also listed B; the stables are being converted into housing, but the office frontages have been preserved. O... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_42 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The 1828 map marks this building as 'offices', however it clearly served the function of coach house and stables for coach horses as well. It was also known as 'Adam's Block'. More stables were built in the 1890s for the farm carthorses. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_43 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Some of the dressed stone blocks from which the old stables and offices are constructed have masons marks cut into them. This suggests that they were taken from the ruins of Kilwinning Abbey in 1792 when one of the Earls had the stables built on the site of a 16th-century cottage. Ness states that the stone came from a... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_44 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Architects drawings from March 1930 survive for plans to adapt the stable buildings as a residence for the Earl of Eglinton and Winton, but nothing seems to have come from this initiative. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_45 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The old working horse stables, etc. have been converted into offices, a tea room, toilets, etc. A small Doocot is present in the courtyard. The old OS maps show that by 1897 a gas works had been established here to supply the castle and offices. By 1911 this gas works had been replaced by an electricity power station i... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_46 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Rackets or Racquets in American English, is an indoor sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets", to distinguish it from squash (formerly called "squash rackets"). Eglinton has a 'Racket Hall' which is first shown on the 1860 OS map, but was built shor... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_47 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Aiton states that "Near to the gardens, in a remote corner, more than half encircled by the river, a remarkably handsome cottage has been reared, and furnished, under the direction of Lady Jean Montgomery, who has contrived to unite neatness and simplicity, with great taste, in the construction of this enchanting hut. ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_48 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Lady Jane Hamilton, the 13th Earl's Aunt built or extended 'Lady Jane's Cottage' which lay beside the Lugton Water. She used this thatched building to teach domestic economy to peasant girls. This may represent a later use of Lady Jane's cottage. Nothing now remains of this cottage, other than a 'crop' mark on aerial p... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_49 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A similar style of cottage existed on the Fullarton estate in Troon as a lodge house near the Crosbie Kirk ruins. Lilliput Lane has produced a model of Lady Jane's cottage. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_50 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The gravestone to a faithful family pet dog, Toby, once stood near Lady Jane's cottage and the ornamental pillar memorial; but has since been lost. The inscription readThey take the good, Too good on Earth to stay; The bad was left, Too bad to take away. This dog's gravestone may originally in the Old Wood as recorded ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_51 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | In 2012 Rathmell Archaeology carried out an investigation at the site, confirming its location and locating the site of the old footbridge that led to it. Further excavations were carried out at the site in 2017. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_52 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Ice or snow houses were introduced to the United Kingdom in around 1660 and were commonly brick lined, domed structures, with most of their volume underground. An ice house lies in Old Wood, fairly near to the doocot on the Draught Burn, built by the 10th Earl for £25. It was not very successful and was later modified... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_53 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | These were partly underground structures with stone foundations, used to store pheasants, rabbits, and other game, apart from venison. Ice was taken from the ice houses to the larders, which were placed conveniently beside the footpath to the laundry, as close to the castle kitchens as possible. Nothing remains today. ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_54 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Deer Park ice house lay close to the lane leading to Eglinton Kennels from the Tournament Bridge. It is marked as an Ice House on the 1911 OS map, its later date, style of construction and position close to the deer park suggests that it was a place linked to the preparation and storage of venison from the deer par... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_55 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | This ice house was at some point converted into a cattle shelter by the opening up of one end of the building, the insertion of two air vents in the remaining end wall and the blocking up of the original side entrance. The ice-house may also have been partly uncovered and the brick roof coated with concrete. The buildi... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_56 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A large ornamental Gothic lectern style Doocot (Scottish Colloquial) or dovecote is located near the scant remains of the Eglinton Mains farm, situated on the B 7080 'Long Drive' towards Sourlie Hill interchange. It is said to have come from Kilwinning Abbey which was a possession of the Earls. However, the design is ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_57 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | It was used to breed house doves and pigeons which the 15th Earl was particularly partial to. Doocots were not built to supply meat over the winter as the preferred bird was the young squab or squeakers, which were tender and fatty. A smaller doocot is built into the stable buildings overlooking the open courtyard. The... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_58 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Old OS Maps show that the estate had several curling ponds, one set of three at the Flushes near to Weirston House beside the A 737 Kilwinning Road and the other in between the Stanecastle and Girdle gates on the old Lochlibo Road. The Stanecastle pond had a tarred bottom, giving better quality ice that could also be u... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_59 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | From 1911 the OS maps show a cricket ground and a substantial pavilion built by the 16th Earl, the latter being parallel to the Lugton Water. Two English cricket professionals were employed to provide tuition and they lived in the 'Mid Gates' lodge (just off the main A 78 (T) entrance), which still survives. Neither th... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_60 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | This property was a dower house of the estate, used to be situated opposite the Redburn gates. It had fine gardens with a summer house and a sundial; most likely the characteristic Scottish sundial type, although its present whereabouts are unknown. Redburn was also the base of the Estate Factor at one time. Archibald,... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_61 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Lady Susanna Montgomerie, wife of the 9th Earl of Eglinton, was a renowned society beauty and her husband built for her at Kidsneuk a copy of the cottage orné, the Hameau de la Reine that Marie Antoinette had famously possessed at Versailles. This building, now a golf clubhouse, was thatched until the 1920s and is buil... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_62 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | During each August, Irvine's Marymass Festival takes place as it has done for several centuries. Part of the celebrations are horse racing held on the Cadgers racecourse (a cadger was a person who transported goods on horseback in the days before carts were introduced) on the 'Towns Moor' which was part of the Eglinton... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_64 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The family continued to live at Eglinton until Elizabeth de Eglintoun, the sole heir, married Sir John de Montgomerie of Polnoon Castle at Eaglesham. Elizabeth's mother was Giles, daughter of Walter fitz Alan, Lord High Steward of Scotland, and sister of King Robert II. When Hugh Eglintoun of that Ilk, her father, died... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_65 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Montgomerie family were involved in many historical events, however they are best known for the feud between themselves and the Cunninghames, Earls of Glencairn, living in and around Stewarton and Kilmaurs. In 1488 the Clan Montgomery burned down the Clan Cunningham's Kerelaw Castle. These two clans had a long feud... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_66 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The family crest on the castle ruins and the old stables is said to represent a wife, Edgetta (Egidia?) or daughter of one of the Earls holding a severed head, plus an anchor. She was reputedly kidnapped in the 1600s and taken to Horse Isle off Ardrossan. Whilst on the island she developed the trust of her captor and p... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_67 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Lady Jean Craufurd, daughter of the Earl of Craufurd, became Countess of Eglinton having narrowly survived death as a child, when her home, Kilbirnie House, burned down on 1 May 1757. On 29 July 1565 Queen Mary married Lord Darnley at Holyrood in Edinburgh. At the banquet held in the palace after the marriage the 2nd E... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_68 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The present earl is Archibald George Montgomerie, 18th Earl of Eglinton, and 6th Earl of Winton (b. 1939). The heir-Apparent is his son, Hugh Archibald William Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie (b. 1966). Skelmorlie Castle, near Largs, was the seat of the earl, who is still chief of Clan Montgomery. In 1995 the family move... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_71 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The damask from the pavilion of Lady Seymour, the Queen of Beauty, was used to make the curtains of the great drawing-room in the castle. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_72 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Amongst others, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, described the tournament, 'weaving' it into his romantic novel Endymion. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_73 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Within 100 years, Eglinton Castle and pleasure gardens were abandoned. The tournament, costing around £40,000, was a severe drain on the family fortune which, together with huge expenditure on the Ardrossan Harbour, the Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal, and the Glasgow Bank failure, undermined the resources of a fa... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_74 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Eaglesham lands, including the Polnoon estate, were sold in 1842 after 700 years of ownership by the Montgomeries. The failure of the Glasgow Bank in 1878 lead to financial difficulties, which together with the poor state of the castle, resulted in the sale of the entire contents of the house between 1 and 5 Decemb... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_75 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | By 1938 the OS map shows a municipal cemetery at Knadgerhill (opened in 1926) and Ayrshire Central Hospital near the Redburn gate in the Meadow Plantation. The War Department purchased parts of the estate for training purposes in 1939. In 1948 the Trustees of the late 16th Earl sold most of the remaining parts of the e... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_77 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Wilson family had purchased the old offices, castle ruins, and other land from Robert Howie and Sons in 1950. Clement Wilson, the food processing factory owner, established the Clement Wilson Foundation (now known as the Barcapel Foundation Ltd.) which opened part of the grounds to the public, spending around £400,... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_78 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Wilson family gave the park to Cunninghame District Council in 1978, making it possible to establish Eglinton Country Park, a resource which now attracts over 250,000 visitors a year. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_79 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The factory, which employed 300 people, closed in 1997, following the acquisition of its business;a claim is that the factory was closed in order for the new owners to obtain its order book. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_80 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | During the open-cast mining operations at Sourlie several sub-fossil antlers of reindeer and also bones of the woolly rhinoceros were found. Both of these species was hunted by early humans, who may have caused their extinction. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_82 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A small cordoned cinerary urn or beaker was found with several other urns in a tumulus very near to Eglinton Castle; it is now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland. A search for the tumulus in the 1960s found that no traces remained. A greenstone axe-hammer was found at Eglinton between the stables and the... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_83 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A large and well-preserved prehistoric cairn or barrow is present at Lawthorn. Its name is suggestive of a court hill or justice hill, which is indeed the oral tradition. It is 21 paces in diameter at the base, in diameter at the top and high; largely composed of boulders and one large boulder of graywacke stone, lo... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_84 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Three chapels may have existed before the reformation, one in the vicinity of Chapelholm, Benslie wood and South Fergushill farm; one at Weirston and the other at Stanecastle gate. A Chapelcroft farm existed near Laigh Moncur, becoming the deer shelter in the Deer Park, now demolished and a Chapel Bridge over the Lugto... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_85 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The foundations of the Stanecastle chapel were found a by Mr W Gray when digging drains. Judging from the foundations, the building must have been of considerable extent. Local tradition (J Fisher, Sevenacres) supports the findings, makes it more than probable that such a building once existed here. A chapel near Bourt... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_86 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | An unusually complex network of mineral railway lines, mainly running through the outer parts of the park, existed in the 19th and 20th centuries; the trackbed now being used as cycle paths in several places. A rare waggon-way bridge for the original horse-drawn railway (later relaid as standard gauge) still survives ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_87 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | In the Chapelholms wood the 1938 map marks a hydraulic ram and cistern in a bend of the Lugton Water close to one of the old Fergushill collieries. Hydraulic rams harnesses the flow or current force of water to pump a portion of the water being used to power the pump to a point higher than where the water originally st... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_88 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The existing workshops at the Visitor Centre were, as stated, the site of the electricity 'power station.' This supplied the castle and a number of the estate houses with a 110 volt electricity supply. A Mr. Dickie was the last manager of the power station. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_89 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Diamond was the name of a coalpit in the vicinity of Chapelholms which may explain the modern name 'Diamond Bridge' which is given to Chapelholms bridge and the name 'Diamond Lodge' which may have been the now demolished Chapel cottage. Black Diamond was a favourite horse of one of the Earls, but any connection is pure... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_90 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Key to plan; 1 - Downcast shaft & winding engine house; 2 - upcast shaft and winding engine/cum pump house; 3 - engineer's and blacksmith's shops; 4 - winch house; 5 - store; 6 - office; 7 - boiler house and chimney; 8 - screening house; 9 - fan/compressor house; 10 - wagon traverser; 11 - underground band haulage. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_91 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Ladyha no 2 pit was sunk in 1885 to a depth of and closed in May 1934, having struggled since its main customer, the Eglinton Iron Company, closed in 1928. The Eglinton Iron Company had opened in 1845 and at one point covered with eight furnaces and a 100,000 ton iron production per year. A fairly substantial brick-l... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_92 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Three areas within the old boundaries of the old Eglinton estate have become nature reserves, first developed by Irvine Development Corporation (IDC), but now owned and managed by the Scottish Wildlife Trust with free and open access to the public. These reserves are within easy reach of the park. Sourlie woods is situ... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_93 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Lawthorn woods (locally pronounced 'L'thorn' ) is a remnant of the Lawthorn plantation, which together with the 'Longwalk' and 'Stanecastle' plantations formed a much larger wooded area that once ran in an unbroken swathe down as far as Stanecastle and the old Stanecastle gate lodges. Lawthorn wood has easy access with... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_95 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The hamlet of Benslie, previously Benislay (1205), Benslee or Benslee square (1860), is situated next to the wood which once formed the 'Baroque garden.' Part of the garden outline survives on the Benslie Fauld farm side. The name 'fauld' may hold a clue at this is Scots for an area manured by sheep, cattle or possibl... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_96 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Fergushill church in Benslie was built to serve Fergushill, Doura and Benslie. It was consecrated on Sunday, 3 November 1879 and the first minister was then Rev. William McAlpine. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_97 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Fergushill Cottage faced the Lugton Water just below the point at which the Fergushill Burn joins the river. Nothing much remains, however a Mrs. Miller once lived here and she recollected collecting water from the well which still exists as a circular low brick wall near to the site. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_98 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Fergushill Tile Works existed in 1858, but is not shown on the 1897 OS map. A number of freight lines have run through the village, connecting the main line near Montgreenan with the Doura branch. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_99 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The area is named after the family of that name. Fergushill of that Ilk, the local laird, Robert de Fergushill de Eodem had an extensive estate here in 1417. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Scottish Wildlife Trust have designated part of the park as a 'Wildlife Site' through an agreement with the local council. The site is of 47 ha, with 6 ha of that being woodland. The map reference is NS 327 427, and the area covers Chapelholms Woods and the wetland associated with Eglinton Loch. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Archibald, the 11th Earl, was Deputy Vice-Admiral of the Port of Troon, within the limits from Kelly Bridge to Troon Point. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The Glasgow, Paisley and Ardrossan Canal was never completed and the section from Paisley to Glasgow was converted into a railway. The Glasgow terminus had been known as Port Eglinton and the Caledonian Railway station that replaced it was known as Eglinton Street Station. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A loch was planned in 1807, to be located where the existing loch is situated, but continuous with the river. An 'Eagle Well' existed in the Sourlie Burn plantation. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Rumours exist of a ley tunnel which is said to run from Kilwinning Abbey, under the 'Bean Yaird', below the 'Easter Chaumers' and the 'Leddy firs', and then underneath the Garnock and on to Eglinton Castle. No evidence exists for it, although the story may be related to the burial vault of the Montgomeries which does e... | [
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20231101.en_13200316_111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Three ghosts are associated with the castle; a white lady; a grey lady and a ghost seen within the surviving castle tower in 1997. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | A Charter of the time of Mary, Queen of Scots, refers to Eglinton's 'cunningaries' or rabbit-warrens. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | The 'gem ring' on the Ardrossan Academy badge is taken from the Eglinton coat of arms; the Earl of Eglinton having been one of the founders of the school. | [
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20231101.en_13200316_114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglinton%20Country%20Park | Eglinton Country Park | Another Eglinton Park is a public park located in the North Toronto neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, just west of the Eglinton Subway Station. | [
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