Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Clifton Park

Clifton Park, an estate in Morebattle and Linton parishes, NE Roxburghshire. The mansion on it is in Linton parish, 1¼ mile NNW of Morebattle village; its owner, Rt. Hy. Elliot, Esq. (b. 1837; suc. 1873), holds 5258 acres in the shire, valued at £5178 per annum. Clifton Hill (905 feet), 3½ miles to the E, is a beautiful dome-shaped eminence, on the right bank of Bowmont Water.


(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: Linton ScoP       Roxburghshire ScoCnty

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