Country Interlude

And old haunt...

This avenue (up to the house) stretches about 
1.12 miles, the distance of the traditional Scots
mile.  At the time of Queen Victoria's visit in 
1857 it was described as being 'bounded by lime
and chestnut trees, with a number of foreign pines
and other rare trees'. 

The 4th Earl erected this giant urn (flanked
by statues of fallow dear stags) in 1848 in memory
of his beloved first wife and three daughters who
died of tuberculosis. The inscription reads "Haud
Immemor" - "Never Forgotten".

'Cos what can you do but pencil roll back
down that hill!

The Lakes were created in the mid 1830s by
damming the Kelly Burn. The lake was used for
fishing trout, migratory sea trout pass through it to
spawn in The Keithfield and Raxton burns. When
the upper lake froze, blocks of ice were transferred
to the Ice House to preserve food in the days before
COuntry refrigerators.

William the 2nd Earl of Aberdeen built Haddo in the 1730s
in the classical style of William Adam. Later Earls and Marquesses
remodelled it in line with changes in taste and comfort. Haddo
was bequeathed to the NTS in 1978.

...but new people to enjoy it with!