Midway between the market town of Laurencekirk and the village of Fettercairn
We are proud and excited to present photographs taken in May of 2002 by Paula and Alex Spence of Scotland, e-mail address: paula@snowhawk.co.uk . They drove 120 miles to take these photographs for Michael D. Brown a descendant of Lancelot Strawn.
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View enroute to Cairn O'Mounth
The Estate of Thornton lies at the northern end of the Vale of Strathmore in the fertile Howe o' the Mearns, an area of one time strategic importance since it commanded the approach to the Cairn-a-Mounth pass over the Grampians to Deeside and the North.
Main Lodge at the entrace to the grounds of the Castle
The front view of Thornton Castle
A visitor approaching the north-west front of the castle by this avenue will see on the left a squat round tower carrying the arms of the Strachans of Thornton and shot holes commanding the front elevation; the base of this tower, constructed of great whin-stone boulders, is a survival of an earlier building which stood on the site and extended over part of the gravel forecourt in the 14th century.
Thornton Castle grounds. Daffodils at the castle are for export. They also grow tulips just about the same time and all these daffodils and tulips are exported to different places in Europe, Holland being one of them.
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