What is recorded here

Gordon Castle, Gardens imposed a rigid formal garden, pond and tree avenue on Moray during the 18th Century. The exact location remains known, but permission to walk the grass is not certain. A private mansion may have hidden its beauty behind walls, forcing locals to imagine the shape of water and shade they could not touch.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Gordon Castle, Gardens as Formal Garden (18th Century), Pond (18th Century), Tree Avenue (18th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Gordon Castle was built by the Gordon family, a prominent Scottish noble family, in the 16th century, with significant 18th-century enhancements to its formal gardens. It is important as a historic seat of the Earls of Gordon and as an example of Scottish Renaissance and later landscape design.

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