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History

Oldmeldrum situated in Aberdeenshire was created in 1672. It has an old square which is dominated by the Town Hall, with tower and clock. A number of old houses still stand. Oldmeldrum is the centre of agricultural country devoted mainly to fat-stock rearing there is also a distillery.

The nearby Barra Castle stands to the west of Barra Hill, close to the site of Bruce's decisive victory over the Comyns in 1307. Turrets carried up from the foundations, sparse use. of corbelling, and simplicity of contour make it a very impressive building.

It was the Ramsays who in 1755 added the "New Wing' which was restored in 1956. The buildings now form three sides of a courtyard; the fourth side is a wall surmounted by three decorative stone vases. This wall existed before 1755. Just north is Meldrum House, now a hotel. The oldest part has massive stone vaulting of the 13thcent. The central portion, with its elegant external stone stairway, dates from the 1 7th cent., while the rest of the building dates from the early 19th cent. Oldmeldrum stands on a westward-facing slope giving nice views across the farmlands.

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