Fiddlehall

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Building summary
Name Fiddlehall
Address Falkland
Postcode KY15 7DD
Date
Architect
See map Map C
OS grid ref NO 257 076
Latitude & longitude

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Fiddlehall is a house and farm off the Laich Road, Falkland, and near the Falkland Golf Club.

In 2022 excavations in the garden revealed a former Royal Observer Corps listening post.

Further references

"It is unclear what exactly this name might mean. Perhaps it was once associated with music making."[1]


"To let at Martinmas, 1905. The desirable houses at Fiddlehall with 17½ acres of land, lying adjacent to the Burgh of Falkland, as presently occupied by Mr James Clark. For further particulars apply to George Gavin, factor, Falkland Palace."[2]

Notes

  1. Taylor, Place-Names, page 160.
  2. Dundee Courier, 2 June 1905, quoted in Playfair and Burgess, page 115.


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