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      <image:caption>Ayton Castle, Scottish Borders - owned by TV personality Alan Carr. We wish Mr Carr well as Laird of Ayton Castle.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Carbisdale Castle, Ardgay - owned by Lady Carbisdale (aka Samantha Kane, Barrister-at-Law). Recently renovated and sometimes for sale.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stoke Rochford Hall, Lincolnshire - recently acquired on a 999 year lease by historic property specialists, The Timeless Collection.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bunchrew House - 16th-century Scottish baronial mansion on the Beauly Firth. Famously acquired by John Forbes of Clan Forbes in 1673. 16 bedrooms/suites just 3 miles from Inverness.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ballathie House, Perthshire - set on the River Tay in 200+ acres, not far from Perth. Said to be a favourite of The Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII). The Grand Duke Michael of Russia and the Duke of Westminster both were visitors to Ballathie.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Portmore Estate, Peebles - A listed baronial mansion house with 10 bedrooms and a further 7 estate cottages, Victorian walled garden, reservoir with fishing chalet, mature parkland - set in almost 3,500 acres just 45 minutes by car from Edinburgh.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Glengorm, Tobermory - a Baronial castle, 18 bedrooms and a further 17 rental properties, a cafe, a working farm - and 3,700 acres on the Isle of Mull. For sale right now.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dunbeath Castle - a 15th-century cliff-top castle, 13 bedrooms, a further 20 estate houses, 4 miles of coastline - and 28,500 acres. For sale in 2024 at an asking price roughly equivalent to 1,000 per acre.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Brechin Castle - Seat of Clan Ramsay and until recently home of Lord and Lady Dallhousie. A-Listed Building and Gardens. They don't come much more authentic.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ronachan House - not every property needs to be a castle to be important or lovely. B-listed with views west to Islay, Jura and Gigha this lovely Victorian building is set in 10 coastal acres.</image:caption>
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