Heading south from the crossroads of the main road heading towards Saltoun, you pass the well kept New Cemetery and a quarter mile further stood the ruins of the hamlet of Spilmersford. Carboniferous limestone was long ago burned at Spilmersford. The deep excavations there now filled with water as well as the tumbled down kilns […]
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Pencaitland House
Almost opposite the church and standing a short distance to the north of the road is the building known as Pencaitland House. The original old Pencaitland house, a 17th century building was destroyed by fire in 1875. Only two wings of the house survived and stand about 100 metres of Pencaitland Bridge within the policies […]
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