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The winner was able to consume over eight bottles of claret (others say five or six). Alexander
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upstream of the hotel. Brandyburn Farm is located on the other bank of the Nith, the name often being associated with smuggling and the hiding of illicit spirits. A statue and seat are shown at the start of the path to the Hermitage. A small lochan is shown at Penflowing Bridge near Carse Mains.
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out above. An armorial panel dated 1598 was built into the entrance tower range in 1909. The house has a fine panelled entrance hall and snooker room, together with an elegant staircase and 21 en suite bedrooms; it is placed within 18.2 ha (45 acres) of parkland and woodland.
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to the mines. They went a considerable distance into the mines, braving the dark, wet and cramped conditions at first, however they had to turn back as Burns found the poor air very distressing. Burns did not record this visit, however Maria included the details in a letter.
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such as the 'Whistle' room and added masonic emblems to the hermitage building (see below) in recognition of Robert Burns' interest in the craft. The two lead-light windows in the Main Hall show an anchor and chains that may commemorate his link with the
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was used as a hiding place for valuables during times of war or raids. The present punctuation convention for Friars Carse, with or without the apostrophe, is at variance with the older convention of Friars' Carse; the 'Carse of the Friars'.
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runs close to the Friars Carse mansion house and the fishing beat here consists of 2300 metres of right bank fishing with a mixture of pools providing fishing with fly, spinning or worming for salmon, sea trout and greyling.
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together with Robert Burns and helped to organise and censor its library of 150 volumes. Riddell was the president and Burns was the secretary of the society that met on every fourth Saturday.
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she refused to exercise this option and the property was sold, passing out of the family's hands. Walter was wealthy in his own right, having made his fortune overseas; he had married the poet
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Train, Joseph (1843). 'Original Anecdote of Burns'.
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1759:The English Poetry of Robert Burns (1759–1796)
879:Pray for the soul of De Laugh foully murdered.
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1952:A video of the River Nith from Friars Carse
1921:Wilson, Professor and Chambers, R. (1840).
861:Inscriptions on the cross's new base stone.
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257:Friars' Carse, Auldgirth, Nithsdale in 1805
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1897:. Irvine : Irvine Burns Club.
1866:Burns-Lore of Dumfries and Galloway
1019:Reader, dost value matchless worth?
556:The River Nith from the front door.
1805:. London : Caxton Publishing.
1713:Retrieved : 21 September 2011
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1925:. Glasgow : Blackie and Son.
1879:Maxwell-Irving, A. M. T. (2008).
1868:. Ayr : Alloway Publishing.
1752:Rambles through the Land of Burns
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1851:Robert Burns. The Patriot Bard
1803:Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland
1750:Adamson, Archibald R. (1879).
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1725:Retrieved : 9 August 2012
920:sessions with Robert Riddell.
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201:Location of Friar's Carse in
1942:The Crichton Memorial Church
1849:Hogg, Patrick Scott (2008).
1817:Scottish Monastic Landscapes
1772:Dougall, Charles S. (1911).
1009:To Riddel, much lamented man
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853:The Laugh Moor Burial Stone.
1810:The Antiquities of Scotland
1801:Groome, Francis H. (1903).
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1776:. London: A & C Black.
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1864:Mackay, James A. (1988).
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1987:4 February 2012 at the
1808:Grose, Francis (1797).
1757:Bremner, Eileen Doris.
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1391:Maxwell-Irving, p. 146.
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2079:Caerlaverock Castle
2049:Auchenskeoch Castle
1916:The Ayrshire Wreath
1704:Fishing in Dumfries
1611:on 25 February 2011
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