Heritors – this was a term used by Lord Blantyre for people who had farmed the same land for more than 100 years and is known to have been used as early as 1740s although prior to that there was still evidence of landowners having land for many centurie in Blantyre. Landowners were frequently […]
This 1747 map of High Blantyre including Greenhall is probably the oldest map i have of Blantyre and shows Greenhall spelling as “Greinhall”, the same as it was in valuation records of the time. Several sources indicate that Greenhall house was built around 1760, but this map (which shows man made structures in red) clearly […]
By the late 1700’s, the old church in the old kirkyard, Kirkton, High Blantyre was showing some signs of ruin. In fact it was close to be being condemned. It was too small, too damp and not worth repairing. Taking action, the heritors of Blantyre (those who owned the main portions of land) decided to […]