Old lodge gatepost

Introduction

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Old lodge gatepost

Image: © Lairich Rig Taken: 13 Apr 2012

At this point, a greatly overgrown track heads north-east, away from the main road. The presence of an elaborate gatepost suggested that there might once have been a lodge here. The lodge is shown on the first-edition OS map (c.1860); as later maps reveal, it was called Mid Lodge, and, as that name suggests, it was one of three that were associated with Camis Eskan House (Image). It was located in roughly the same place as the dense clump of vegetation that can be seen beside the gatepost. The other two lodges survive: Image and Image

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