Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Calderwood Castle

Calderwood Castle, a mansion in East Kilbride parish, Lanarkshire, on the left bank of the Rotten Calder, 5 miles W of Hamilton. For more than five centuries a seat of the Maxwells, and greatly enlarged in 1840, it stands amid beautiful grounds, with a very fine waterfall on the river; its present holder is Sir Wm. Maxwell, tenth Bart. since 1627 (b. 1828; suc. 1870).


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

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Feature Description: "a mansion"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: East Kilbride ScoP       Lanarkshire ScoCnty

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