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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders abstract "Ayton is a small town located in the historic county of Berwickshire, today part of the Scottish Borders region. It is on the Eye Water, from which it is said to take its name: Ayton means 'Eye-town'. It contains the former ancient tollbooth or town hall with a clock tower, a large branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland and a shop.It is located near the East Coast Main Line railway line, which runs between London, King's Cross and Edinburgh, Waverley station, the closest station being Berwick-upon-Tweed.The A1 (Great North Road) originally ran through the heart of the village, but during the 1980s a bypass was built to the East of the village. Ayton was the location of a coaching inn on the road between London and Edinburgh.Ayton is the last major work of James Gillespie Graham, Scotland's leading Gothic revival architect and was designed by him in 1845. The castle has survived in family ownership as the centre of a substantial Borders estate since then. Norman settlers are the first recorded owners of Ayton when the De Vesci family are understood to have built a small castle. Its medieval history is limited apart from a siege by English royal forces in 1497. By this time it was owned by the Homes, already one of the great families of Berwickshire. James Home's support for theStuarts in 1715 led to the sequestration of the estate which remained vested in the crown until 1765, when it was acquired by James Fordyce, Commissioner for Lands and Forests of Scotland.Fordyce planted a number of woodlands and moved Ayton village further from the castle.Thereafter little is known until the 18th century, although one clue exists; namely three drawings by Robert Adam now in the Soane Museum. Dated 23 March 1791, they show proposals for the lodge and gate in the form of a simple rustic building with an elegant bowed porch 'at the entrance to Ayton House'.James Fordyce died in 1809 bequeathing the estate to a grandson,John Fordyce, who was to have a military career. In 1834 disasterstruck Ayton, as related by the Reverend George Tough, in the NewStatistical Account of Scotland (1845): ‘A devouring conflagration haswithin these few weeks, and in the short period of as many hours,reduced that delightful mansion to a heap of ruins. Providentially, thewhole family.... although scarcely in time warned of their danger, andsome of them in the greatest jeopardy escaped unhurt. They mustremove for a season. May they soon return to retrieve the damage, andto enliven the scene, which is desolate in the extreme’.The Fordyce family did not however return and in 1838 the estatewas sold to William Mitchell. Born in 1778, the youngest son of anAberdeenshire family, he had been the protégé of his cousin GilbertInnes of Stow, near Lauder, who for more than 40 years was DeputyGovernor of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Mitchell became FirstCashier of the bank in 1816 and a director in 1841. Innes dies in1832, to be followed by his only surviving sister in 1839, whereuponMitchell inherited their estates, a magnificent increase in his fortunewhich he marked in 1840 by adopting the name Mitchell-Innes.The only cloud was the scandal that ensued when it was discoveredthat Gilbert Innes had died bankrupt. It is possible that as a resultof the Mitchell-Innes were never quite as rich as they felt theyought to be, but William Mitchell-Innes seemed unconcerned; ‘Hismeans were ample’ wrote his obituarist in the Berwickshire Journal,‘And his liberality in distributing them commensurate therewith; hemaintained a princely establishment, and his generous hospitality washis most striking characteristic’.Whilst now in his 60s Mitchell-Innes was determined to build ahouse worthy of his new landed status and approached JamesGillespie Graham who was his near contemporary. The contractdrawings still preserved at Ayton are dated 1845. Graham was thenbusy extending Brodick Castle in Arran for the eldest son of the10th Duke of Hamilton.There are similarities between Ayton and Graham's work atBrodick, but at Ayton he had the advantage of an empty site and amore enthusiastic patron. The result is a masterly composition,built of local red sandstone by Alexander Rowe of Edinburgh thatbrings great drama to what was originally quite a small building:Mitchell-Innes’s demands for space were relatively modest, as hisfamily had all left home.Note: extracted from an article upon Ayton Castle by MichaelHall in Country Life Magazine dated 12 August 1993 and with thekind permission of Country Life.".
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders councilArea Scottish_Borders.
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders lieutenancyArea Roxburgh,_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale.
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders wikiPageWikiLink Negus_(drink).
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ayton".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ayton, Berwickshire".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ayton, Scottish Borders".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders wikiPageWikiLinkText "Aytoun".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders constituencyScottishParliament Ettrick,_Roxburgh_and_Berwickshire_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency).
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders constituencyWestminster Berwickshire,_Roxburgh_and_Selkirk_(UK_Parliament_constituency).
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders country "Scotland".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders dialCode "18907".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders latitude "55.842515".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders lieutenancyScotland Roxburgh,_Ettrick_and_Lauderdale.
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders population "557".
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders postTown "EYEMOUTH".
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders unitaryScotland Scottish_Borders.
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders subject Category:Berwickshire.
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- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders comment "Ayton is a small town located in the historic county of Berwickshire, today part of the Scottish Borders region. It is on the Eye Water, from which it is said to take its name: Ayton means 'Eye-town'.".
- Ayton,_Scottish_Borders label "Ayton, Scottish Borders".
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