Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cultoquhey

Cultoquhey, an estate, with a mansion, on the W border of Fowlis-Wester parish, Perthshire. The mansion stands 2½ miles NE of Crieff, and is a graceful edifice in the Tudor style, after designs by Smirke. The property of the Maxtones since 1410 and earlier, the estate is now held by Jas. Maxtone Graham, Esq. (b. 1819; suc. 1846), the thirteenth in unbroken male descent, who assumed the name of Graham on succeeding in 1859 to the lands of Redgorton, and who owns 2519 acres in the shire, valued at £3117 per annum.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "an estate, with a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Perthshire ScoCnty

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