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ABBOTSFORD , formerly the See also:

residence of See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott, situated on the S. See also:bank of the See also:Tweed, about 3 M. W. of See also:Melrose, See also:Roxburghshire, See also:Scotland, and nearly T m. from Abbotsford See also:Ferry station on the See also:North See also:British railway, connecting See also:Selkirk and See also:Galashiels. The See also:nucleus of the See also:estate was a small See also:farm of Too acres, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.e. muddy) Hole, and bought by Scott on the See also:lapse of his See also:lease (1811) of the neighbouring See also:house of Ashestiel. It was added to from See also:time to time, the last and See also:principal acquisition being that of Toftfield (afterwards named Huntlyburn), See also:purchased in 1817. The new house was then begun and completed in 1824. The See also:general ground-See also:plan is a parallelogram, with irregular outlines, one See also:side overlooking the Tweed; and the See also:style is mainly the Scottish Baronial. Into various parts of the fabric were built See also:relics and curiosities from See also:historical structures, such as the See also:doorway of the old Tolbooth in See also:Edinburgh. Scott had only enjoyed his residence one See also:year when (1825) he met with that See also:reverse of See also:fortune which involved the estate in See also:debt. In 183o the library and museum were presented to him as a See also:free See also:gift by the creditors. The See also:property was wholly disencumbered in 1847 by See also:Robert Cadell, the publisher, who cancelled the See also:bond upon it in ex-See also:change for the See also:family's See also:share in the See also:copyright of Sir Walter's See also:works. Scott's only son Walter did not live to enjoy the property, having died on his way from See also:India in 1847. Among subsequent possessors were Scott's son-in-See also:law, J.

G. See also:

Lockhart, J. R. See also:Hope Scott, Q.C., and his daughter (Scott's See also:great-granddaughter), the Hon. Mrs See also:Maxwell Scott. Abbotsford gave its name to the " Abbotsford See also:Club," a successor of the See also:Bannatyne and See also:Maitland clubs, founded by W. B. D. D. Turnbull in 1834 in Scott's See also:honour, for See also:printing and See also:publishing historical works connected with his writings. Its publications extended from 1835 to 1864. See Lockhart, See also:Life of Scott; See also:Washington See also:Irving, Abbotsford and Newstead See also:Abbey; W.

S. See also:

Crockett, The Scott See also:Country.

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