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Bruntsfield is home to the character Isabel Dalhousie in The Sunday Philosophy Club series of books by Alexander McCall Smith which includes The Right Attitude to Rain and The Careful Use of Compliments. Isabel is a philosopher turned detective, who lives a "lady of leisure" lifestyle in a Bruntsfield townhouse.
The sale is being split into nine different lots, which can be purchased together or separately. This includes the castle itself, the Boars Head Hotel , a cricket fields, shooting grounds, a store ...
The Bruntsfield lands, held originally by the King's Sergeant, Richard Broune (hence Brounisfield, later Bruntsfield), were granted by Robert II to Alan de Lawdre in 1381. The Lauder family sold them to the merchant John Fairlie in 1603, whose family sold them in turn to Sir George Warrender, a Bailie and later Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in 1695.
Path by Bruntsfield Links. The area is a favourite spot for dog-walkers and becomes an overspill area when crowds gather in the Meadows during warm Summer weather. The west section of the Links next to Whitehouse Loan, where a former school building (the original Boroughmuir School, later James Gillespie's School for Girls) has been converted to a University Hall of Residence, also attracts ...
The 4,414-square-foot property includes access to private hiking trails and a back patio equipped with an infinity-edge pool See Inside Renée Zellweger’s Former L.A. Home That She Sold to Move ...
The property was extended in the mid-1700s and again in the 19th century when the Scots Baronial features such as the tower and turrets were added. Castle Gogar was owned for over 200 years by members of the Gibson-Maitland and the Steel-Maitland families, [ 11 ] until the death of Brenda Steel-Maitland in 2002.
When Jex-Blake retired and moved away in 1899, the trustees acquired her house, Bruntsfield Lodge, and fitted it out as an 18-bed women's hospital. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The hospital committee was led by well-connected women active in various social reform projects such as Flora Stevenson .
He presumably lived with his father, who had retired to Edinburgh in 1889 and was living at 151 Bruntsfield Place, then a very new and exclusive flat, and exceptionally larger than the average property. [3] In 1901 he spent several months in Galloway in south-west Scotland studying the ever-changing skies. [4]