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Hopetoun House

Scotland · 18th century

Founded
c. 1750
Architect
William Bruce
Heritage status
category A listed building
Location
Abercorn
Coordinates
55.9954°, -3.4629°
Links
Wikimedia Commons
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Hopetoun House in Scotland
Photo: Supergolden · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Hopetoun House is a stately home near South Queensferry in West Lothian, Scotland. It is owned by the Hopetoun House Preservation Trust, a charity established in 1974 to preserve the house and grounds as a national monument, to protect and improve their amenities, and to preserve the furniture, paintings, manuscripts, and other articles of historical interest associated with the house. In the interior are valuable portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and George Dance the Younger, and paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck, Backhuysen and Canaletto. The south wing of the house is occupied by the family of Adrian Hope, 4th Marquess of Linlithgow. The house is a Category A listed building. and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.

Text adapted from “Hopetoun House” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Hopetoun House ranks #2,233 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #78 of the 252 mapped in Scotland. Founded c. 1750, it is older than 17% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 757 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 4,800 times in the last 60 days, more than 88% of the atlas. 22 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Edinburgh, 18 km away. See how Scotland compares in the castle statistics.

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