Belton

Category

Library Item

Item no

12872

Title

Belton

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1880

Size

13.9 x 19 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The accompanying descriptive text in the volume begins as follows:
'The mansion house of Belton, the residence of James G. Baird Hay, Esq., is situated in the parish and about three miles south-west of the town of Dunbar. It stands, well sheltered, on the banks of Biel water, in a winding glen. Originally it appears to have been a peel tower, to which additions have been made at various times,-the last by the proprietor in 1865. The older part of the building has been so thoroughly incorporated with the new as to be almost indistinguishable, but the vaulted rooms and thick walls on the north side of the house, facing the stream, were evidently built some centuries ago.'

Belton House was demolished in 1967

The full text may be viewed from the volume which is held at the Edinburgh and Scottish Collection in Edinburgh Central Library

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