. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. r SUNNYSIDE AND CANDY. 117 Brown had a taste for antiquities, and had collected a numberof relics connected with the district, which he very highlyprized. He was succeeded in the estate by iiis son Laurence,who, in 1832, married his cousin Elizabeth, a daughter ofthe late John Brown, Broadchapel, Dumfriesshire. In 1687the estate of Edmonston was sold to William Allan Woddrop,Esq., of Ellsrickle, for the sum of £39,750. The estate of Edmonston, which now holds blanch of theCrown,
. Biggar and the House of Fleming: an account of the Biggar district, archaeological, historical, and biographical. r SUNNYSIDE AND CANDY. 117 Brown had a taste for antiquities, and had collected a numberof relics connected with the district, which he very highlyprized. He was succeeded in the estate by iiis son Laurence,who, in 1832, married his cousin Elizabeth, a daughter ofthe late John Brown, Broadchapel, Dumfriesshire. In 1687the estate of Edmonston was sold to William Allan Woddrop,Esq., of Ellsrickle, for the sum of £39,750. The estate of Edmonston, which now holds blanch of theCrown, consists of the farms of Wintermuir, Brownsbank,Townhead, Greenend, Strathbogie, and Candybank, and alsothe Mill and Mill lands, the Mansion-house and offices, theHome parks, and the cottages and lands of Paul Yards,—thewhole extending to 1440 imperial acres, of which 984 arearable, and the remainder consists of pasture, plantations, & 1815, a very elegant mansion-house, in a castellated styleof architecture, after a design by James Gillespie Graham, waserected in a secluded valley on this The. castle of Edmonston, with its lake and woods, as willbe observed from the above representation, forms a lovely andpicturesque scene, and at the period of its erection called fortha poetical eulogium from the pen of the Kev. James Proudfoot,Coulter. We o-ive one or two of the stanzas:— 118 BIGGAR AND THE HOUSE OF FLEMING. Sweet Edmonston, by nature blest,By art adorned as thou hast been,How fondly does the conscious sunDelight to linger oer the scene. Long may thy castle all unscathed,The touch of time and tempest brave, As proudly rising from the steep,It paints its image on the wave. Proud are its battlements that rise Irregular and unconfined,Where grandeur, elegance, and strength, In happy union, are combined. On the estate of Edmonston there was at one time evidentlya considerable village, which was generally called Candy. Ithad its own school, its own mill, its o
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