What is recorded here
Megginch Castle, Walled Garden, stands in Perth and Kinross with an unassigned sundial and layered 18th and 19th century garden walls. The stones may have marked sunlight, growth and passage for people whose names are no longer written. A walled garden is a room without a roof, shaping air, soil and patience into life.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Megginch Castle, Walled Garden as Sundial (period Unassigned), Walled Garden (19th Century), Walled Garden (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.
Megginch Castle, Walled Garden is associated with the historical Megginch Castle, which was built in the 17th century by the Drummond family, a prominent Scottish noble lineage. The walled garden is remembered as part of the estate's historic landscape, reflecting 18th- and 19th-century horticultural practices in Scotland.
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