Elsick House

Elsick House is a historic country house in Kincardineshire in north-east Scotland, standing in farmland about two miles from the North Sea and close to the town of Newtonhill. It sits at the heart of the Elsick Estate, an area of roughly 650 hectares (1,600 acres) that has been held by the Bannerman and Carnegie family since the 14th century, and it is the present family seat of the Duke of Fife. The estate lies within the watershed of the Burn of Elsick, a stream that crosses the grounds. Today the house and estate are offered as an exclusive-use venue for weddings and corporate events. The surrounding land lies near the Causey Mounth, a medieval drovers road that carried traffic across the coastal Mounth between Stonehaven and the Dee crossing at Aberdeen, and that was used in 1639 by a Covenanter army during the first battle of the Civil War.