The Lands of Roughwood
The Spiersland Way is an old toll road that runs down to Burnside Cottage, probable at one time a smithy, stables and toll house near Roughwood Farm. Roughwood was a small fortified tower in the 15th Century and was home sequentially to the Hammills, Sheddens, and Ralston-Patricks.
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