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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Barns, an ancient baronial fortalice in the southern extremity of Crail parish, Fife. It belonged to the Cunninghams, and passed through various hands to the Anstruthers, but it is now so ruinous as to be only partially habitable, and that by farm servants. Drummond of Hawthornden, spending some time in it about 1620, here wrote his macaronic burlesque Polemo Middinia, giving a satirical description of a quarrel between the Lady of Barns and one of her neighbours; and here contracted an affiance with that lady's daughter, which was defeated by the young bride's death.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "an ancient baronial fortalice" (ADL Feature Type: "fortifications") |
| Administrative units: | Crail ScoP Fife ScoCnty |
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