The Buchan
Introduction
The photograph on this page of The Buchan by David Baird as part of the Geograph project.
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The Buchan
Image: © David Baird Taken: 18 Dec 2011
The Buchan was formerly a farm, converted to a hunting lodge by the Earl of Galloway in 1855. Later it reverted back to a farm until the 1980s. Between the 1950s and late 1970s, the farmer at the Buchan, a Mr Alex McCutcheon, kept a pack of Ramasites. These were a cross between a labrador and a vixen, having inherited the labrador's head and the fox's tail. The pack were regularly exercised by Mrs McCutcheon who would use a hunting horn to call the pack together. After about 1980 the farm gradually fell into a state of disrepair until it was renovated in the late 1990s, and is now holiday accommodation. But what became of the Ramasites, I have no idea.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.092487
Longitude
-4.479116