Stirlingshire | 1563
Denny lies a few miles west of Falkirk in Stirlingshire, in the strategic heart of Scotland. Its early history is uncertain; however, it has been rumoured that Denny was at one point held by the Knights Templar and, as such, it has at times been known as Temple-Denny.
Following the Scottish Reformation, the head of the Hospitallers in Scotland, Sir James Sandilands of Calder, formally surrendered all Hospitaller lands to Mary Queen of Scots. In 1564, she granted these back to him as baronies under the new Lordship of Torphichen, in return for the huge sum of 10,000 crowns. This grant included the lands and Barony of Denny.
1922 OS map Stirlingshire Sheet n XXIII.SE. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (CC-BY NLS)
was a Privy Councillor, a Commissioner of the Estates and a firm Royalist during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century. His son John, who later became 3rd Earl of Wigtown, was also a Royalist and fought at the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645. Following the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1666, the lands and barony of Denny were incorporated into the Barony of Cumbernauld.
The River Carron, as seen from a bridge © 2010 Lairich Rig (CC BY-SA 2.0)
John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown, continued his family’s ancestral support of the House of Stuart and accompanied King James VII when he fled to France in 1689. On Wigtown’s return to Scotland, he was an opponent of the Treaty of Union. At the outbreak of the Jacobite Rising of 1715, he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle as a suspected Jacobite sympathiser.
Denny Old Parish Church © Leslie Barrie (CC BY-SA 2.0)
He became Lieutenant Governor of Edinburgh Castle and was a Representative Peer for Scotland. His second son, Charles Elphinstone, was an officer in the Royal Navy, Governor of Greenwich Hospital and MP for Stirlingshire. Charles succeeded to the Wigtown estates and assumed the name Fleming.
He sold the lands and Lordship of Cumbernauld which included the Barony of Denny to John William Burns of Kilmahew in 1876. Burns belonged to a family of wealthy shipping magnates and he set about improving the estates. By this time, the village had come to prominence through industrialisation and was a centre for printing, mining, foundries, brick and chemical works.
Stirlingshire | 1563
Denny lies a few miles west of Falkirk in Stirlingshire, in the strategic heart of Scotland. Its early history is uncertain; however, it has been rumoured that Denny was at one point held by the Knights Templar and, as such, it has at times been known as Temple-Denny.
Following the Scottish Reformation, the head of the Hospitallers in Scotland, Sir James Sandilands of Calder, formally surrendered all Hospitaller lands to Mary Queen of Scots. In 1564, she granted these back to him as baronies under the new Lordship of Torphichen, in return for the huge sum of 10,000 crowns. This grant included the lands and Barony of Denny.
1922 OS map Stirlingshire Sheet n XXIII.SE. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (CC-BY NLS)
was a Privy Councillor, a Commissioner of the Estates and a firm Royalist during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century. His son John, who later became 3rd Earl of Wigtown, was also a Royalist and fought at the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645. Following the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1666, the lands and barony of Denny were incorporated into the Barony of Cumbernauld.
The River Carron, as seen from a bridge © 2010 Lairich Rig (CC BY-SA 2.0)
John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown, continued his family’s ancestral support of the House of Stuart and accompanied King James VII when he fled to France in 1689. On Wigtown’s return to Scotland, he was an opponent of the Treaty of Union. At the outbreak of the Jacobite Rising of 1715, he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle as a suspected Jacobite sympathiser.
Denny Old Parish Church © Leslie Barrie (CC BY-SA 2.0)
He became Lieutenant Governor of Edinburgh Castle and was a Representative Peer for Scotland. His second son, Charles Elphinstone, was an officer in the Royal Navy, Governor of Greenwich Hospital and MP for Stirlingshire. Charles succeeded to the Wigtown estates and assumed the name Fleming.
He sold the lands and Lordship of Cumbernauld which included the Barony of Denny to John William Burns of Kilmahew in 1876. Burns belonged to a family of wealthy shipping magnates and he set about improving the estates. By this time, the village had come to prominence through industrialisation and was a centre for printing, mining, foundries, brick and chemical works.
On the Cowal Peninsula, on the eastern shore of Loch Fyne in Argyll, stands the ancient Barony of Otterinverane. The Barony takes its name from the sandbank which juts out more than halfway across Loch Fyne, An Otir meaning ‘the long low promontory’ and Bharain, meaning ‘Baron’ in Gaelic, thus ‘the Baron’s Otter’. It was established formally into a barony by the Scottish Crown sometime between 1295 and 1395.
Stirlingshire | 1563
Denny lies a few miles west of Falkirk in Stirlingshire, in the strategic heart of Scotland. Its early history is uncertain; however, it has been rumoured that Denny was at one point held by the Knights Templar and, as such, it has at times been known as Temple-Denny.
Following the Scottish Reformation, the head of the Hospitallers in Scotland, Sir James Sandilands of Calder, formally surrendered all Hospitaller lands to Mary Queen of Scots. In 1564, she granted these back to him as baronies under the new Lordship of Torphichen, in return for the huge sum of 10,000 crowns. This grant included the lands and Barony of Denny.
1922 OS map Stirlingshire Sheet n XXIII.SE. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland (CC-BY NLS)
was a Privy Councillor, a Commissioner of the Estates and a firm Royalist during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century. His son John, who later became 3rd Earl of Wigtown, was also a Royalist and fought at the Battle of Philiphaugh in 1645. Following the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1666, the lands and barony of Denny were incorporated into the Barony of Cumbernauld.
The River Carron, as seen from a bridge © 2010 Lairich Rig (CC BY-SA 2.0)
John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown, continued his family’s ancestral support of the House of Stuart and accompanied King James VII when he fled to France in 1689. On Wigtown’s return to Scotland, he was an opponent of the Treaty of Union. At the outbreak of the Jacobite Rising of 1715, he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle as a suspected Jacobite sympathiser.
Denny Old Parish Church © Leslie Barrie (CC BY-SA 2.0)
He became Lieutenant Governor of Edinburgh Castle and was a Representative Peer for Scotland. His second son, Charles Elphinstone, was an officer in the Royal Navy, Governor of Greenwich Hospital and MP for Stirlingshire. Charles succeeded to the Wigtown estates and assumed the name Fleming.
He sold the lands and Lordship of Cumbernauld which included the Barony of Denny to John William Burns of Kilmahew in 1876. Burns belonged to a family of wealthy shipping magnates and he set about improving the estates. By this time, the village had come to prominence through industrialisation and was a centre for printing, mining, foundries, brick and chemical works.
