A pictorial and descriptive guide to Aberdeen, Deeside, Donside, Strathspey, Cruden Bay, Huntly, Banff, Elgin, etc . use has been converted into a first-class sanatorium. A golf course has been laid out and bowlinggreens and tennis courts formed. The reserved portion hasbeen opened as a recreation park for the community, and inrecognition of the gift, in which Her Royal Highness shared,is now styled the Princess Royal Park. The public also have the privilege of walking along themain roads of the sanatorium grounds. One of the avenuesleads to the Bridge Of Alvah, two miles, where the Deveronhas
A pictorial and descriptive guide to Aberdeen, Deeside, Donside, Strathspey, Cruden Bay, Huntly, Banff, Elgin, etc . use has been converted into a first-class sanatorium. A golf course has been laid out and bowlinggreens and tennis courts formed. The reserved portion hasbeen opened as a recreation park for the community, and inrecognition of the gift, in which Her Royal Highness shared,is now styled the Princess Royal Park. The public also have the privilege of walking along themain roads of the sanatorium grounds. One of the avenuesleads to the Bridge Of Alvah, two miles, where the Deveronhas scooped for itself a deep channel, the surface of the waterbeing forty feet below the bridge. This is, perhaps, theprettiest spot in the neighbourhood of Banff. A mile from the house, on the bank of the river, is the mauso-leum of the Fife family. According to an inscribed slab builtinto the external wall, it is erected on the place wherestood a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin by King RobertBruce, MCCCXXIV. A relic of the chapel has been builtinto the back of the mausoleum. It is an arched vault with I?. Valentine & Sons, Ltd.,] HUNTLY CASTLE.
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