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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Ross Priory, a mansion in Kilmaronock parish, Dumbartonshire, on the SE shore of Loch Lomond, 4 ½ miles NNE of Balloch station. Considerably enlarged about the year 1810, it has beautifully wooded grounds, and was much frequented by Sir Walter Scott in 1817 while he was writing Rob Roy. The estate - 1778 acres of £1416 annual value - has come, through his mother, to Sir George Hector Leith-Buchanan, Bart. See Drygrange.—Ord. Sur., sh. 38, 1871.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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