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Mauldslie Castle
Mauldslie Castle was a country estate mansion at Dalserf, South Lanarkshire, developed around a 16th‑century tower house and remade as an 18th‑century baronial mansion with 19th‑century extensions. The estate included pleasure grounds, a walled garden, a courtyard stable range and lodges; Mauldslie Bridge across the River Clyde provided an approach. The mansion was demolished in 1931; several estate buildings and the bridge survive.
Its prime
1914
Today
Demolished
As it stood in 1914
What Mauldslie Castle looked like in its prime.
A large country mansion built around a 16th‑century tower house core, with later 18th‑ and 19th‑century wings forming an extended rectangular silhouette adjoining a cobbled courtyard stable range. The house and outbuildings sit within planted pleasure grounds and Mauldslie Woods, with a walled garden and tree‑lined drives; lodges stand at estate entrances. The River Clyde and Mauldslie Bridge lie close to the approach and Haugh Hill rises to the south with a small family burial ground.
Its story
The story of Mauldslie Castle.
Mauldslie developed around a 16th-century tower house at Dalserf on the Clyde. In 1792 Thomas Carmichael, 5th Earl of Hyndford, built a baronial mansion there to a design by Robert Adam; the estate's workers established the nearby village of Rosebank before 1816. After Andrew, the last Earl of Hyndford, died without issue in 1817, the upper estate passed to Sir Windham Carmichael-Anstruther and the lower part to Gordon of Harperfield, then William Dixon.
William Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands, bought the estate in 1850. James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands, who inherited in 1906, hosted King George V and Mary of Teck at the mansion in July 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War. The mansion was demolished in 1931 and the lands sold off in forty separate lots; several estate buildings survive, along with Mauldslie Bridge across the Clyde.
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7 places to explore in 1914.
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Clans who held Mauldslie Castle.
The families that held Mauldslie Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Carmichael
Held by the Carmichael Earls of Hyndford; the 5th Earl built the Robert Adam mansion in 1792, and the line ended with Andrew, last Earl, in 1817.
Hozier
Held by the Hozier Barons Newlands from William Hozier's purchase in 1850 into the 20th century.
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