Maryburgh Introduction

Attribution: S. Fraser (Maryburgh Primary School March 2015)

An Introduction

The founding of the village of Maryburgh is of comparatively recent origin. It dates from 1815 when Mary Elizabeth MacKenzie returned to Brahan Estate on the death of her father.

Since those early beginnings a thriving community has developed.

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The west end of Wrightfield Park after crossing the Conon bridge.
Farm steading on Hood Street (adjacent to Peartree Cottage)
Albert Place
Next to Glencanisp is Hermanville, outside which stood the village pump where residents would gather to fill buckets and have a "bleather".
Glencanisp
SeaforthPl02.jpg
Grant Crescent.
Aerial photograph of Maryburgh taken on 16 August 1963
Map of Maryburgh in 1972
Laburnum
Seaforth Place
The wooden clad Swedish style houses.
Drewellis (at one time the village inn)
Peartree Cottage (1824) the oldest house in the village.
Sunnyholm (1828)
The Tollhouse.
Birch Drive
Birch Drive
Grant Crescent.
Hood Street looking up the hill from Proby Street.
The entrance to Mackenzie Place.
Some of the 30-plus houses in Mackenzie Place
Ussie Mills
Proby Place is a small row of houses leading off from Proby Street.
Proby Street looking east from entrance to Seaforth Place.
Proby Street looking west from Albert Place.
Rosshill Drive.
Winter view from Dunglass Road.
Some of the Wrightfield Park houses showing the landscaped bank between the houses and the main road.
The west end of Wrightfield Park after crossing the Conon bridge.
Farm steading on Hood Street (adjacent to Peartree Cottage)
Albert Place
Next to Glencanisp is Hermanville, outside which stood the village pump where residents would gather to fill buckets and have a "bleather".
Glencanisp
SeaforthPl02.jpg
Grant Crescent.
Aerial photograph of Maryburgh taken on 16 August 1963
Map of Maryburgh in 1972
Laburnum
Seaforth Place
The wooden clad Swedish style houses.
 
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