Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Glendinning

Glendinning, an estate in Westerkirk parish, NE Dumfriesshire, on Megget Water, 5 miles N by W of the church. It belongs to Sir F. J. W. Johnstone of Westerhall, Bart., and contains remains of an old castle. An antimony mine was worked on it from 1793 till 1798, and produced, in that time, 100 tons of regulus of antimony, worth £8400.—Ord. Sur., sh. 10, 1864.


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

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Feature Description: "an estate"   (ADL Feature Type: "land parcels")
Administrative units: Westerkirk ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty

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