Gardens · Scottish Highlands
Kerelaw House
Kerelaw House — a garden in scotland-highlands, United Kingdom.
Raibeart MacAoidh — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Kerelaw House is a garden of interest in scotland-highlands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Kerelaw House was part of the former Kerelaw Estate situated on the west coast of Ayrshire, Scotland, in the town of Stevenston.
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Background
History
The house was built in the neo-Palladian style in 1787 by Lieut.-Col. Alexander Hamilton (a relative of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of the same name). Hamilton died in 1837 without issue and left considerable debts. tree reputed to have been sent by David Livingstone from Africa. Campbell and his family (including his son Kenneth Campbell VC) were the last family to live at Kerelaw; in 1969 the house was bought by Glasgow Corporation Education Department and Kerelaw Residential School was opened in its grounds in 1970. The house was intended to be used as offices for the school, but was instead demolished.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 55.6490, -4.7543
Sources
- wikidata: Q15235677 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kerelaw House (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kerelaw House?
- Kerelaw House is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.6490°, -4.7543°.