Rickarton House

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Rickarton House is an historic home in Aberdeenshire, Scotland approximately six kilometres northwest of Stonehaven. (Ordnance, 2004) Other notable historic structures in the vicinity are Ury House, Fetteresso Castle and Muchalls Castle. This structure is situated along the north banks of the Cowie Water slightly upstream of the confluence with Cowton Burn.

Contents 1 History 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] History

Some of the earliest recorded history of the local vicinity relates to the Roman legions march from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp. That march used the nearby Elsick Mounth, one of the ancient trackways crossing the Mounth of the Grampian Mountains. (Hogan, 2007)

Rickarton House was constructed in the first decade of the 19th century by William Rickart Hepburn.(Watt, 1985)

[edit] See also

• James Ian Keith, 12th Earl of Kintore
• Raedykes

[edit] References

• Ordnance Survey Map United Kingdom Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000 scale (2004)
• C. Michael Hogan, Elsick Mounth, Megalithic Portal, editor: A. Burnham (2007)
• Watt, Archibald, Highways and Byways around Kincardineshire, Stonehaven Heritage Society (1985)

[edit] External links

• Map location of Rickarton House, Aberdeenshire