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THE GARDEN HISTORY SOCIETY IN SCOTLAND

EAST RENFREWSHIRE DESIGNED LANDSCAPES & GARDENS SURVEY RECORDING FORM

A. GENERAL SITE INFORMATION

SITE NAME:

Cowdon Hall

ALTERNATIVE NAMES OR SPELLINGS:

Kouden (Pont 1598, Blaeu 1654) Cowdenhall (Roy circa1756) Crofthead (Ainslie 1852) Cowden Hall

ADDRESS AND POSTCODE:

Fragmented site in multiple private ownership

GRID REFERENCE:

NS 46985726

LOCAL AUTHORITY:

East Renfrewshire (Historical County Renfrewshire)

PARISH:

Neilston

INCLUDED IN ‘THE INVENTORY OF GARDENS & DESIGNED LANDSCAPES IN SCOTLAND’:

TYPE OF SITE: (eg. Landscaped estate, private garden, public park/gardens, corporate/institutional landscape, cemetery, allotments, or other – please specify)

Landscaped estate and gardens

SITE OWNERSHIP & CONTACT: (Where site is in divided ownership please list all owners and indicate areas owned on map if possible)

Private ownership

SIZE IN HECTARES OR ACRES:

33 acres (13.4 hectares) approximately

PUBLIC ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS/OPENING TIMES (If any):

Informal public access

NATIONAL & LOCAL AUTHORITY DESIGNATIONS: (eg. Conservation Area, Green Belt, Tree Preservation Order(s), Nature Conservation Area, etc.

Currently designated Green Belt and referenced in the East Renfrewshire Local Plan 2011: Proposal Strat 4.2 “The Council will work with the Owner to restore Crofthead Mill and the associated Cowdonhall Estate.” Proposal L7.12 “The Council will support landscape, woodland and access improvement to the Cowdonhall Estate.”

LISTED STRUCTURES:

None

B. HISTORICAL SURVEY INFORMATION: MAPPED, DOCUMENTARY & PUBLISHED SOURCES

MAPPED SOURCES: (please list maps below in date order and attach copies where possible. Give the description or title, date, maker’s name if known, and for Ordnance Survey maps give the date of survey, edition number and sheet number)

Unless otherwise stated all extracts from map images are reproduced by kind permission of the Trustees of the National Library of Scotland.

Pont, Timothy 33. Renfrewshire 1583 – 96 identifies Kouden, the older Cowdon Hall http://maps.nls.uk/view/?id=296#zoom=6&lat=2631&lon=3960&layers=BT

Blaeu, Johan Atlas of Scotland Renfroana (Renfrew) 1654 identifies Kouden- http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu/view/?id=115#zoom=6&lat=2920&lon=4525&layers=BT

Roy Military Survey Map of Scotland (Lowlands) circa 1755 identifies Cowdenhall and Crofthead http://maps.nls.uk/geo/roy/#zoom=15&lat=55.78508&lon=-4.44904&layers=0B000000TTT

Ainslie, John Map of the County of Renfrewshire 1800 identifies Cowdenhall (old), Crofthead and Crofthead Mill http://maps.nls.uk/joins/view/?rsid=74400318&sid=74400319&mid=669&pdesc=Right%20side#rsid=74400318&mid=669 &pdesc=Right%20side&zoom=7&lat=6120&lon=4386&layers=BT

Circa 1583-96 Timothy Pont 33: Renfrewshire

1654 Blaeu Renfroana (Renfrew)

Ainslie, John Map of the County of Renfrewshire 1820 identifies Cowdenhall and Crofthead http://maps.nls.uk/joins/view/?rsid=74400318&sid=74400319&mid=669&pdesc=Right%20side#rsid=74400318&mid=669 &pdesc=Right%20side&zoom=7&lat=6112&lon=4427&layers=BT

Ainslie, John Map of the Southern Part of Scotland 1821 identifies Codonhall and Crofthead Mill http://maps.nls.uk/joins/view/?rsid=74400286&sid=74400286&mid=649&pdesc=Left%20side#rsid=74400286&mid=649 &pdesc=Left%20side&zoom=8&lat=15742&lon=6384&layers=BT

1800 Ainslie Map of the County of Renfrewshire

Thomson, John Renfrew Shire 1852 identifies Crofthead http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/thomson/view/?rsid=74400165&sid=74400165&mid=542#rsid=74400165&mid=542&zoom=7&lat =3036&lon=7704&layers=BT

1852 Thomson Renfrew Shire

Ordnance Survey First Edition Six Inch to One Mile Renfrewshire Sheet XVI Surveyed 1856 Published 1863, identifies Crofthead House http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch/view/?sid=74428243#zoom=7&lat=8826&lon=5696&layers=BT

Ordnance Survey First Edition Renfrewshire 6 inch to 1 mile Sheet XVI Surveyed 1856 Published 1863

Ordnance Survey First Edition 25 Inch to One Mile Renfrewshire Sheet XVI.2 Surveyed 1856 Published 1863 http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch/view/?sid=74965980#zoom=5&lat=3415&lon=5598&layers=BT

Ordnance Survey First Edition Renfrewshire 25 inch to 1 mile Sheet XVI.2 Surveyed 1856 Published 1863

Ordnance Survey Second Edition Six Inch to One Mile Renfrewshire Sheet XVI.NW Surveyed 1895 Published 1898 http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-2nd-and-later/view/?sid=75662188#zoom=5&lat=3935&lon=5364&layers=BT

Ordnance Survey Second Edition 25 Inch to One Mile Renfrewshire Sheets XVI.2 & XVI.6 Surveyed 1895 Published 1897 http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82901136#zoom=5&lat=2461&lon=4576&layers=BT http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82901166#zoom=5&lat=9629&lon=4380&layers=BT

Ordnance Survey 25 Inch to One Mile Renfrewshire Sheets XVI.2 & XVI.6 ( Levelled 1910), Surveyed circa 1912, Published 1913 http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82901139#zoom=5&lat=2501&lon=4024&layers=BT http://maps.nls.uk/os/25inch-2nd-and-later/view/?jp2=82901169#zoom=5&lat=9953&lon=4948&layers=BT

Ordnance Survey Six Inch to One Mile Renfrewshire Sheet XVI.NW Surveyed 1912 Published 1914 http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-2nd-and-later/view/?sid=75662194#zoom=5&lat=3961&lon=5540&layers=BT

Ordnance Survey Six Inch to One Mile Renfrewshire Sheet XVI.NW Surveyed 1938 Published circa1948 http://maps.nls.uk/os/6inch-2nd-and-later/view/?sid=75662191#zoom=5&lat=3991&lon=5476&layers=BT

Ordnance Survey Second Edition Renfrewshire 6 inch to 1 mile Sheet XVI.NW Surveyed 1895 Published 1898

Ordnance Survey Renfrewshire 25 inch to 1 mile Sheet XVI.2 Surveyed 1912 Published 1913

Ordnance Survey Renfrewshire 6 inch to 1 mile Sheet XVI.NW Surveyed 1938 Published circa1948

PRIMARY & DOCUMENTARY SOURCES: (plans, manuscript documents and other estate records) Please list material consulted in date order and attach copies where possible. Give description of material, and location and reference number of archival holding.

Census Data for Cowdon Hall: 572/01 004/00 017 Neilston, Renfrewshire 5/6 April 1891

Census Data for Cowdon Hall: 572/01 004/00 028 Neilston, Renfrewshire 31 March/1 April 1901

Census Data for Cowdon Hall: 572/01 004/00 026 Neilston, Renfrewshire 2 April 1911

Sketch of the Rose Gardens and Part of Walled Garden circa 1940 drawn by William Edgar

HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS & PICTORIAL SOURCES: (drawings, paintings, photographs, aerial photographs etc. Include type, subject, artist, source or reference location, and date if known)

Taylor, Charles, of Paisley The Levern Delineated Alexander Gardner Paisley 1831 Description of landscape prior to establishment of estate and picture of old Cowdoun Ha’ facing page 50.

Miller, A H Castles and Mansions of Renfrewshire and Buteshire 1889 Plate 19 shows house and part of garden with glazed bridge to upper level (RCAHMS)

Cowdon Hall Showing Tennis Lawn and Glazed Bridge to Conservatories (Castles and Mansions of Renfrewshire and Buteshire 1889)

Pride, David A History of the Parish of Neilston Alexander Gardner, Paisley 1910 Pride mentions the ruins of old Cowdenhall (picture facing page 69), the Crofthead Thread Works, the Cowden Burn and the Orrs of Crofthead (p135).

Cowdon Hall circa 1900 (The Neilston Story)

Laws, J L The Neilston Story: A Personal View. Neilston Community Council 1988 Photo of Mansion and gardens – page 86. Photo of Cowdenhall Dramatic Club’s

10 performance of Paul Jones in the conservatory in 1927 – page 88

Zaltbommel/Netherlands: European Library 1985 Picture 75 Grounds of Cowden Hall at the Crofthead Gala – final of the Ladies’ Tug of War, 1913

Photographs held by East Renfrewshire Council at Giffnock Library, Station Road, Giffnock G46 6JF.

Photographs in the private collections: images reproduced with kind permission of various owners

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED SOURCES: (Statistical Accounts, Gazetteers, Directories, Travel Accounts etc.) Please list publications consulted in alphabetical order. Include details of author, title, journal or periodical, and date, volume/edition and page numbers where relevant.

Pride, David A History of the Parish of Neilston Alexander Gardner, Paisley 1910

Hughson, Irene I Barrhead and Neilston in Old Postcards 1985

Miller, A H Castles and Mansions of Renfrewshire and Buteshire 1889

Hughson, Irene & McCrae, Gordon Cowden Hall Renfrewshire Local History Forum Journal, vol 3, page 28 (Old Cowdon Hall) 1991

Fleming, Alexander Neilston Parish New Statistical Account of Scotland Volume VII Renfrew-Argyle. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Son, MDCCCXLV(1837) “There is an abundance of building going on in the parish; but there has been none of late of any consequence, saving Crofthead House, the property of James Orr Esq and Company; and James Dunlop Esq of Arthurlie; both of which are handsome and elegant buildings.”

Taylor, Charles The Levern Delineated Alexander Gardner Paisley 1831

Laws J L The Neilston Story: A Personal View Neilston Community Council 1988

PRINCIPAL PERIODS OF DEVELOPMENT:

Medieval Cowdon Hall (built in the 1630s) by William Cochrane

Crofthead House circa 1835 House with conservatory, set in wooded landscape.

Crofthead House circa 1860 with Twins Frank and Archibald Orr Later Managers of the Duke Street Glasgow Mills and Crofthead Mills Respectively (East Renfrewshire Library)

Cowdon Hall circa 1860 – 1912 Construction of new mansion house on site of Crofthead house with development of the gardens and landscape. North and South lodges constructed with new driveways. Ornamental and walled gardens immediately around house. Boating pond and landscaped approach from South Lodge. 1913 - 1964 The Orr Family left Neilston and the Mill and House were taken over by The English Sewing Cotton Corporation. The House was used variously as a convalescent home during the First World War and from 1919 as a welfare and recreational centre for mill workers.

Soldiers Convalescing During World War I (Private Collection)

Cowdon Hall circa 1920

The house was converted into flats, and for a brief time part was used as the premises of Diana Dresses, a clothing firm. The house was finally demolished in 1964. The gardens were maintained in part to provide facilities for the mill workers such as tennis courts and a bowling green.

Bowling at Cowdon Hall Date Unknown Bowling Club: Fern-Covered Cliff Face Below (Private Collection) Conservatories as Backdrop Date Unknown (Private Collection)

The walled garden and rose gardens continued in use until sometime after the Second World War.

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECTS/DESIGNERS ASSOCIATED WITH SITE: (please reference source of information)

Not known. Detailing of the glasshouses in photographs suggests Boyd of Paisley as possible constructor of the conservatories and glasshouse ranges.

ORAL RECORDS/REMINISCENSES Please include a list of any people interviewed during the course of research/survey work. Include name and role of interviewee (eg. family member, former employee, local resident), date of conversation and major dates, features or events recalled. Attach a transcript of the conversation if possible.

Local resident who worked in the garden as a boy before the Second World War and recalls the walled garden. Interviewed in early 2011.

Local resident who recalled garden when used as social resource for millworkers.

Local resident who pointed out various features of the estate he remembered as a boy, including the dairy and the existence of a pipe duct from the Mill to the glasshouses.

Current owner of mill and part of site confirmed supply of steam/hot water to glasshouses, identified when mill boiler house demolished.

Local resident whose late husband’s family lived in North Lodge and played in the grounds and around the boating pond as a child.

C. SITE SURVEY Use map provided to mark positions and boundaries. Take photographs where possible. ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENTS Note the materials used, the dates and styles of various phases of development, and category of listing if appropriate PRINCIPAL HOUSE OR BUILDING:

A substantial stone built mansion house of three stories over basement. Demolished 1964. Site depicted on 1895 and 1913 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map Renfrewshire XVI.2 and XVI.6.

OFFICES (stables, outbuildings, etc):

Ruins of stables, laundry and dairy

Ruins of Stable Block with Details of Walling Dating from Crofthead House Era

Remains of Building Identified as the Dairy

HOME FARM OR MAINS:

None

BOUNDARIES (External & internal; estate walls, ha-has, park fences etc.):

Partial estate walls alongside Lochlibo Road and entrance to upper gardens from Holehouse Brae. Remains of Gate Posts to lodge houses and upper garden.

GATES/GATE LODGES:

South Lodge, now privately owned and extended

North Lodge, house demolished. Site only and remains of gate posts

North Lodge Gates on the Lochlibo Road

GARDEN BUILDINGS (Summer houses, view houses, temples, grottoes etc):

Remains of boathouse, masonry and heavy arched brickwork

CHAPELS/MAUSOLEUMS/BURIAL GROUINDS:

None

CONSERVATORIES/FERNERIES:

Conservatory, extensive glasshouses and peach and vine house – only the foundations remain. Roofline markings for peach/vine house visible in enclosed garden walls. Glasshouse floors show subdivisions and remnants of an extensive heating system. Also sections of the underground ducting from mill boiler house to glasshouses are visible, along with fireclay tile lining.

Cowdenhall Dramatic Club Players Gardener with Collection of Pear Trees in in Conservatory Date Unknown Glasshouse Date Unknown (Private Collection) (Private Collection)

Roofline of Peach/Vine House on Walled Underground Duct to Glasshouses Garden Brickwork

GARDEN STATUARY (Fountains, statues, sundials, monuments etc.) Note any inscriptions:

None

BURIAL GROUNDS/CEMETERIES (Note principal memorials and headstones with inscriptions where possible):

None

BRIDGES:

None

TERRACES (Including steps & stairways):

Remains of stone edged walkways around lawned garden. Walkways and pathways ascending from house level to upper gardens. Steps into former conservatory and main glasshouse range. Principal access to conservatories and upper garden from upper floor of house identifiable by foundation of glazed bridge on cliff top and the low walls of the turning area into main conservatory (as shown on Ordnance Survey2nd Edition 25 inch map).

Conservatory Steps

WALLED GARDENS (Including potting sheds, bothies, glasshouse ranges etc.):

Derelict 5 ½ acre walled garden with remains of peach/vine house. Brick walls are mostly intact to approximately 3metres. Several old Apple trees and soft fruit areas are considerably overgrown with numerous substantial self-sown Sycamore and Willow trees. The extensive remains include pipe duct from Mill to glasshouses.

Walled Garden Boundary Wall

AVENUES, CARRIAGE DRIVES, ORNAMENTAL WALKS, SERVICE DRIVES ETC:

South Lodge Drive through open landscape is still largely extant. The drive is bordered on the west side by a line of conifers with specimen trees nearer to the house site. North Lodge Main Carriage Drive to site of house with commanding views over valley.

Mature trees and Rhododendrons border the drive.

Main Drive from North Lodge Looking Towards Children Playing on the Main Site of Cowdon Hall Drive Date Unknown (Private Collection)

The ornamental walk from the house around the lawns and tennis court can be identified by the stone path edging and predominance of ornamental trees and shrubs.

Remnants of Ornamental Walk

ROCKERIES:

Evidence of rocky landscapes developed in places, particularly using the paths ascending the cliff side at the rear of the house.

WATER FEATURES (natural & man-made including rivers, cascades, lochs, pools etc.):

Remains of boating pond (overgrown) with raised bank, boathouse and island planted with trees. Remains of artificial island in boating pond within raised dyke. Rockwork to disguise overflow pipe.

Retaining Bank of Boating Pond Boating Pond Island

Boating Pond Overflow in “Rockwork” Children on Frozen Boating Pond circa 1930 (Private Collection)

ANY OTHER FEATURES NOT INCLUDED ABOVE (Include any historic or modern feature and indicate use where possible):

Ruins of old Cowden Hall constructed in the 1630s.

Old Cowden Hall Photographed April 2009

Remains of boathouse to south of boating pond.

Arched Brickwork from Former Boathouse

PLANTED ELEMENTS: The garden or park should divide up naturally and historically into different areas, e.g. ornamental gardens, parkland, walled garden, policy planting. Each area should be delineated on a plan and current use noted. 1. ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS

GRASSED AREAS (Lawns, meadows, terraces):

Lawns and terraces, currently overgrown. Leveled oval arena near boating pond possibly used as riding area.

Former Lawns and Tennis Courts/Bowling Greens

FLOWER BEDS (Indicate theme or type – parterres, perennial herbaceous border/annual bedding where possible. Note whether significant plant collection):

None remaining except site of designated rose garden beside glasshouses.

SHRUBBERY INCLUDING HEDGES & TOPIARY (Include details of height, species etc. if possible):

Extensive Rhododendrons and specimen trees along drive and round lawn. Some hybrid Rhododendrons remain close to site of boathouse.

ORNAMENTAL TREE PLANTING (Single specimens, groups – include details of age and species if possible):

North Lodge Drive lined with mixed broadleaf and conifer trees

South Lodge Drive lined with a variety of conifers including Cedar. Tree planting on island. Roundels of Copper Beech in open landscape.

AVENUE PLANTING (May also cross parkland and policy planting. Note predominant species and whether single or double planted if possible:

None

ANY OTHER ORNAMENTAL PLANTING FEATURE NOT COVERED ABOVE:

Rhododendrons planted along the steep corridor between drive and main road.

C2 KITCHEN GARDENS AND ORCHARDS

KITCHEN GARDENS (walled, hedged or other boundary. Note any other historical features and current use)

Derelict 5.5 acre walled garden. See details for walled garden.

Walled Garden with Old Apple Trees

ORCHARDS (walled, hedged or other boundary. Note any other historical features and current use)

Several old Apple trees and soft fruit areas are considerably overgrown with numerous substantial self-sown Sycamore and Willow trees.

C3. PARKLAND

GRASSED AREAS (Note current use, amenity grassland, agricultural use – grazing, cultivation etc.):

Extensive open grassed areas, in part annual use for local agricultural show. Regularly cut for silage.

Open Landscape beside South Lodge Drive

TREE PLANTING (Individual specimens, clumps, belts, roundels etc. Note species if possible, and whether fenced):

Much of the area close to the site of the house is currently covered in self-sown trees. The open designed landscape remains largely grassland. Roundels of Copper Beech in open sloping parkland.

ANY OTHER PARKLAND FEATURE NOT INCLUDED ABOVE:

None

C4. POLICY WOODLAND PLANTING

COMPOSITION (Note composition of woodland; deciduous/coniferous/mixed, and principal species if possible. Note current use e.g. commercial timber cropping/amenity woodland):

None

ANY OTHER POLICY WOODLAND FEATURE NOT INCLUDED ABOVE:

None

C5. VIEWS, VISTAS, BORROWED LANDSCAPE & PERIPHERAL AREAS

KEY VIEWS (please note views inwards to the house, outwards from the house, and internally within the landscape):

Crofthead House and the subsequent Cowdon Hall were situated on a narrow plateau between cliff and valley, very enclosed and private. Planting added to the seclusion of the site screening it from the Lochlibo Road and the owner’s mill complex.

Views from the conservatory upper level over the Levern Valley and the site of old Cowdon Hall.

BORROWED LANDSCAPE (please note any features, natural or man-made, lying outside the designed landscape which act as eye-catchers or contribute to the outward views):

None

PERIPHERAL AREAS (please note any features lying outside the main landscape but which are clearly designed eg. regularly spaced roadside/field boundary trees, estate walls etc.):

None

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON CURRENT CONDITION OR CARE OF THE LANDSCAPE

Largely overgrown and derelict. Numerous fallen trees and storm damage. Recent local interest in improving access and interpretation of site. Minor clearing work undertaken in November 2011 by volunteers with consent of owner.

Main Drive from North Lodge

SURVEY DRAWINGS AND/OR PHOTOGRAPHS

Please include a list and copies where possible of any drawings, photographs made/taken during the ground survey.

A selection of survey photographs is included in this document. A full set of photographs is available, together with a copy of this recording form, in East Renfrewshire Local History Centre, Giffnock Library, Station Road, Giffnock G46 6JF. http://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/webcontent/Home/Services/Leisure+and+culture/Heritage+and+local+history/ http://www.portaltothepast.co.uk/

D. SUMMARY HISTORY OF THE SITE This section should be set out in chronological form and should include information on the way the site has developed and changed since it was first recorded, using dates and maps where possible. The names of owners, architects or designers involved, and relevant historical events should be recorded, and the sources noted.

The original Cowdon Hall was built in the 1630s by William Cochran of Cowdon and the ruins of this remain just outwith the boundary of the present site.1 At this time the surroundings were primarily agricultural, but by the early 18th century a considerable textile industry had developed along the Levern valley using plentiful water supplies mainly for bleaching and printing. The Crofthead Mills at the junction of Holehouse Brae and the Lochlibo turnpike road was one of several works established using the water of the Levern.

In 1830 James Orr, owner of the Crofthead Mills, built a mansion for himself and his family beside the Mill, at a cost it is said of £3000. The house occupied a level area above the Lochlibo road, and separated from it by a step hillside. The early maps show that, in common with the homes of other local mill owners, the garden around the house consisted mainly of trees in a landscape without extensive ornamental gardens. When later the railway from Glasgow to Kilmarnock was extended beyond the sidings at Neilston, the road was moved to accommodate the tracks in this narrow part of the valley, reducing the land around the house to a narrow tongue bounded on the west side beside the drive by a steep drop to the realigned Lochlibo Road and immediately behind the house on the eastern side by a cliff face rising circa 10 metres.

Around this time in about 1864, his nephew Robert Orr, who ran the Mill at that time with his brother, built another mansion on the same site and called it Cowdon Hall. The whole estate was extended and remodeled. Ornamental trees were introduced from many places, predominantly North American species. There were croquet lawns, tennis courts, a bowling green and a boating pond with boathouse and a little bridge – all something of a mill owner’s fantasy!2

The Orrs left the Mill and the area in 1912/13 and the house was taken over by a consortium of mill companies known as English Sewing Cotton Corporation Ltd. Over the years until its demolition in 1964, it was used for various purposes as detailed above. Crofthead as a thread mill finally closed in 1992. After lying empty and vandalised for several years, it was taken over in 1996 as the headquarters of J and M Murdoch and Son Ltd, a local recycling and haulage company who now have a number of other businesses operating from the premises. The South Lodge side of the site, now in the ownership of the Crawford family, is more open and part of it is used once a year for the Neilston Agricultural Show now its 187th year. The fields are also a source of silage.

The site of Cowdon Hall itself, owned by the Murdochs, is now quite overgrown but foundations of parts of the various buildings remain and provide a sense of what it must have been like in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is currently the subject of local interest and plans are afoot to try to improve access and interpretation of the site. (see East Renfrewshire Local Plan 2011). During November 2011 The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV) obtained a

26 small amount of funding to support four days of basic path maintenance.

1 Hughson I, McCrae G. Cowdon Hall. Renfrewshire Local History Forum Journal, vol 3, page 28, 1991.

2 Memories of Neilston Mill. Neilston: Bobbins and Threads, 2008

NAME:

East Renfrewshire Designed Landscapes and Gardens Group https://sites.google.com/site/erdlgg/ under the auspices of the Garden History Society in Scotland http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org/

DATES OF GROUND SURVEY WORK:

2009 to 2012

DATE RESEARCH COMPLETED:

Ongoing