Esslemont Castle *

Region: Aberdeen(shire) & Moray

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Description:

Esslemont Castle has been a Gordon property but it was not built by the Gordons. It was erected by Henry Cheyne of Straloch under a license dated 1500, and was only regularly lived in for about a century. The previous castle on this site was destroyed as the result of a feud between the Cheynes of Esslemont and the Hays of Ardendracht in 1493.