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Bemersyde House

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Bemersyde House is a historic house in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, near Newtown St. Boswells, Melrose and Dryburgh. It began as a sixteenth-century peel tower, a fortified defensive tower house, later enlarged and altered. In 1921 the British government purchased the estate and gave it to Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, commander of British forces in the First World War, and it has remained the seat of the chiefs of Clan Haig since, currently held by Alexander Douglas Derrick Haig, 3rd Earl Haig. The house is a Category A listed building, and its grounds, which include a statue of William Wallace, are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building Type
House 1
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Scottish Borders, United Kingdom 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
House 1
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Bemersyde House (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bemersyde_House, lead definition
    Bemersyde House is a historic house in Roxburghshire, Scotland.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Bemersyde House is a historic house in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders, near Newtown St. Boswells, Melrose and Dryburgh. It began as a sixteenth-century peel tower, a fortified defensive tower house, later enlarged and altered. In 1921 the British government purchased the estate and gave it to Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, commander of British forces in the First World War, and it has remained the seat of the chiefs of Clan Haig since, currently held by Alexander Douglas Derrick Haig, 3rd Earl Haig. The house is a Category A listed building, and its grounds, which include a statue of William Wallace, are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland.
  • Wikipedia infobox building_type field (House)
    Bemersyde House is a historic house in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The nearest towns are Newtown St. Boswells, Melrose, and Dryburgh. The William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde is on the Bemersyde Estate.
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2. Bemersyde House (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
Quote, Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
Wikidata item Q4885095, property P131/P17 (location): Scottish Borders, United Kingdom
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Wikidata: Bemersyde House
Wikidata Q4885095, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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