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Robert Haldane's improvements to the Airthrey Estate
It is thanks to Robert Haldane (1764-1842) that we enjoy the graceful landscaping of Airthrey today. It was he who had the castle built on the site of the old mansion house. This castle was designed by renowned architect of the time, Robert Adam. The estate was landscaped by the Whites (father and son) of County Durham, students of Capability Brown. Robert Haldane also had the loch created, enclosed the grounds with walls, and built a summer house and a hermitage in the woods behind the castle. The ruins of the hermitage can still be seen today.
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