Chesters is a 1,565-acre (633 ha) country estate near Ancrum, located on the banks of the River Teviot in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. The estate includes a listed house, workers houses, gardens and extensive grounds. National Grid Reference NT 60842 22512.
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History
editThe house was built for Thomas Elliot Ogilvie who purchased the estate in 1787 with money he obtained while working for the Madras Civil Service. Five years before he had married Hannah Pasley (born Dashwood). By 1790 it had been re- designed by local Borders architect William Eliot for Thomas and Hannah Ogilvie.[1]
Emily Gerard, a writer who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, was born here in 1849.[2]
In 2008 and 2011, the house appeared in episodes of the Channel 4 television series Country House Rescue, starring Ruth Watson.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Porter, Agnes (1 January 1998). A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-85285-164-4.
- ^ "Gerard [married name de Laszowska], (Jane) Emily (1849–1905), novelist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33375. Retrieved 14 December 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Programmes - Most Popular - All 4". Channel 4. Retrieved 14 December 2019.
External links
edit- CANMORE/RCAHMS record for Chesters House
- RCAHMS record for Chesters House, stables, Gate Lodge, and Cottages
- Chesters Estate website
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