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Polmood is a small settlement in southern Scotland north-east of Tweedsmuir on the A701 in the Scottish Borders, in the valley of the River Tweed.
Polmood was for many centuries the centre of the Hunter family in the lowlands and the earliest record was a charter dated 1057 to Norman Hunter of Polmood. It was once a Peel tower, part of a chain of beacons running down the Tweed Valley. At the end of the nineteenth century the temporary Talla Railway was built close to Polmont to deliver building materials during the construction of the Talla Reservoir.[1]
Polmood House was erected on 1638 on the site of the older tower by Robert Hunter (d.1689). This house was ruinous by 1864 but was rebuilt and modernised by Houston Mitchell who had acquired the house and grounds in 1847. A 17th century dovecot survives 50m east of the house.[2]
The estate was acquired by Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson, an Edinburgh businessman and politician who took his baronetcy title from the Peeblesshire estate of Polmood which he had acquired before 1916.
Polmood is commemorated in "The Piper of Polmood" a piece based on old Scottish folk-tunes by Victor Babin.
In fiction
[edit]A Norman Hunter of Polmood, described as the ninth of that name and chief forester of the King of Scotland, features as one of the main characters in The Bridal of Polmood, a tale by James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ J.W. Buchan and Rev. H. Paton (1925-7), History of Peeblesshire, Jackson, Wylie and Co., Glasgow
- ↑ Peeblesshire vol.2, p.305, inventory of historic buildings by RCAHMS published by HMSO
- ↑ Hogg James (1969), The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd: Tales and Sketches, Blackie & Son, London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, pp. 98 - 139
External links
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- Hunter of Polmood
- Geographia
- Michael Forbes Tweedie The History of the Tweedie or Tweedy Family (1902)
55°32′N 3°24′W / 55.533°N 3.400°W
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