 Dunrobin Castle and Gardens Dunrobin Castle is a stately home in Sutherland, in the Highland area of Scotland, and the seat of the Earls of Sutherland. It is close to the A9 road, and to a Far North Line railway station, which is named for the castle. Image File history File linksMetadata Dunrobin_Castle. ...
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Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic) is a traditional county which is now within the Highland local government area of Scotland. ...
The Highland unitary authority area (Roinn na GÃ idhealtachd in Gaelic) is a local government area in the Scottish Highlands and the largest local government area in Scotland. ...
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The title of Earl of Sutherland is an ancient one in the Peerage of Scotland, created circa 1230. ...
The A9 north of Brora The A9 is a major road running from the Falkirk area in the south of Scotland to Thurso in the far north, via Stirling, Bridge of Allan, Perth and Inverness. ...
The Far North Line is a rural railway line entirely within the Highland area of Scotland, extending from Inverness to Thurso and Wick. ...
Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ...
Though Dunrobin's origins lie in the 1300s, much of what can be seen today is the result of extensive remodelling by Sir Charles Barry, the architect of the Palace of Westminster (the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament), who greatly extended or re-clad the original relatively plain medieval castle to create a 'fairy-tale' architectural fantasy. Stylistically the house has a distinctly 'French renaissance meets Scots-Baronial' feel. Some of the original building is visible in the interior courtyard. The Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster, Barrys most famous building. ...
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The Palace of Westminster, also known as the Houses of Parliament or Westminster Palace, in London, England is where the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and the House of Commons) meet to conduct their business. ...
The Earldom of Sutherland was created in 1235, and a castle appears to have stood on this site since then, possibly on the site of an early medieval fort (the 'dun' of the place-name). The early castle was a fortified, square keep looking out from a cliff top position. Remarkably, this early keep still survives, much altered, within the complex of later extensions, making Dunrobin one of the oldest inhabited houses in Scotland.
Unfortunately when the Jacobite Uprisings began in 1745 the Jacobites stormed Clan Sutherland's Dunrobin Castle without warning. The Earl of Sutherland who had changed his surname from Gordon to Sutherland; William Sutherland the 17th Earl, narrowly escaped them through a back door. He sailed for Aberdeen where he joined the Duke of Cumberland's army. Clan Sutherland is a Scottish clan whose traditional territory is located in the region of Sutherland in northern Scotland and was for a time one of the most powerful Scottish clans. ...
The title of Earl of Sutherland is an ancient one in the Peerage of Scotland, created circa 1230. ...
Duke of Cumberland is a peerage title that was conferred upon junior members of the British royal family. ...
Sir Charles Barry, was retained in 1845 to completely re-model the castle. To change it from a fort to a house in the "Scottish Baronial" style that had become popular among the aristocracy. Barry had been the architect for the House of Commons in London and was much in demand. There are 189 rooms, making it the largest house in the northern Highlands
There is a decided French influence to the whole project, including the gardens, based on Versailles.It has a distinct air of "French Scottish" Barry's house, with 189 rooms is in the popular vein. Much of Barry's interior was destroyed by a fire in 1915. The interior you see today is mainly the work of the Scottish architect, Sir Robert Lorimer.
The 5th Duke died in 1963, and with the convoluted way of British nobility succession, the Earldom and the house went to the current Countess of Sutherland, the Dukedom to somebody else. The house became a boy's boarding school for a period of seven years from the late 1960's before reverting back to being a family house.
An exhibition includes the colours of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders, the famous thin red line at Balaclava.
With 189 rooms, Dunrobin Castle is said to be the largest house in the Scottish Highlands. Falconry displays are put on in the castle's grand gardens. There is also a museum displaying the heads of numerous animals shot by the family on safari, ethnographic items collected from around the world (particularly Africa), and an important collection of archaeological relics, collected from the enormous Sutherland estates. Notable among these are the collection of Pictish symbols stones and cross-slabs, including a majority of those discovered in Sutherland. The museum retains its Victorian-early 20th century arrangement, making it one of the most remarkable private collections in the British Isles. It is housed in an 18th century summer-house adjoining the formal gardens. The Scottish Highlands are the mountainous regions of Scotland north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. ...
Falconry (occasionally referred to as falconeering) is the art or sport involving raptors (birds of prey) to hunt or pursue game. ...
The Picts inhabited Caledonia (Scotland), north of the River Forth. ...
Sutherland (Cataibh in Gaelic) is a traditional county which is now within the Highland local government area of Scotland. ...
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