Where is Glencripesdale Estate?

Glencripesdale Estate is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.6680°, -5.8070°.

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Glencripesdale Estate

Glencripesdale Estate in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Glencripesdale Estate is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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The Glencripesdale Estate is a country estate situated along the south side of Loch Sunart, a sea loch in the west highlands of Scotland. Today, the Isle of Càrna is the last remaining part of a once huge 26,000-acre (110 km2) acre deer forest, river and grousemoor bought in 1870 by the three Newton brothers, T. H. Goodwin, William III, and Canon Horace Newton of Barrells Hall and Holmwood, Redditch, ancestors of the current family, who are also of direct Milward's Needles descent.

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History

The Glencripesdale Estate once stretched for 20 mi along the entire south side of Loch Sunart, and the entire east side of Loch Teacuis. The estate comprised the estates of Glencripesdale, Liddesdale and Laudale (16,000 acres) and also Rahoy and Kinlochteacus (10,000 acres). The total estate measured 41 sqmi, with waterside access to over 20 mi of coastline. The highlight of the Estate was Glencripesdale House/Castle which was the mansion the Newton brothers built to house their family and staff. During the three main months of Summer when the family were in occupation over 100 staff were employed locally running the estate covering its sporting side, Yachts and land and property…

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