Mauldslie Castle

Mauldslie Castle stood on the Mauldslie Estate near Dalserf in South Lanarkshire. The estate once included a 16th-century tower house which formed the core of the later mansion. In 1792 Thomas Carmichael, the 5th Earl of Hyndford, commissioned Robert Adam to design a grand baronial mansion on the site. The estate also created Haugh Hill to the south as a family burial ground. Thomas Carmichael became the first to be buried there after his death in 1810. The estate passed through several owners after Thomas’s death. Andrew, the 6th Earl of Hyndford, and his nephew Archibald Nisbet, Earl of Carfin, divided the land between them. William Hozier, 1st Baron Newlands, bought the estate in 1850 and enlarged the mansion a decade later with David Bryce as architect. The grounds were laid out as Mauldslie Woods and pleasure gardens to welcome visitors. The West Lodge, Mauldslie Bridge over the River Clyde and the Marna South Lodge remain as listed buildings today. The castle hosted King George V and Queen Mary in July 1914 under James Hozier, 2nd Baron Newlands. After his death in 1929 the estate was sold in separate lots and the mansion was demolished in 1931. The courtyard stable range survives in private ownership, while the walled garden has disappeared. The burial ground on Haugh Hill still marks the resting place of the Earls of Hyndford.