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A walk with my sister and Cobhan around the Dalzell Estate and Baron's Haugh's Nature Reserve, Motherwell, Scotland. The estate is recognized as a historic designed landscape of significance and makes for an excellent way to spend an afternoon. There are five coloured way-marked routes that you can follow, each of varying length and taking in different aspects of the site. There are info boards dotted all around and you can stream audio guides from your mobile using mobitour and download walking maps from the website at the bottom of the description.
The Estate started life as a Royal Hunting Forest in 843, and was owned by the Dalzell family until 1647 when it was granted to James Hamilton 1st of Dalzell.
The Estate passed down through generations of the Hamilton family until 1952 when the family moved to Snowdenham House in Surrey. The house then became a boys school until it was purchased in 1967 by the local authority. The House then lay empty until it was sold for one penny in 1985 and converted into a number of flats.
Dalzell House would have started life as a defensive wooden structure, which was replaced by the stone Keep during the 15th or early 16th century. The Keep was then extended in 1649 and throughout the centuries that followed further substantial additions were made to it.
The grounds of the Estate have been shaped by successive generations of the Hamilton Family who followed the fashion of the day to create formal, romantic and functional gardens and designed landscapes.
Archibald Hamilton was a keen horticulturist and built upon the work started by his father and expanded the estates orchards, established 150 acres of forest and created avenues, walks, vistas and ornamental features, such as the Listening Cave (1765) and Ha-Ha (1724). Other features within the estate, such as the Summerhouse, orchards and kitchen gardens have come and gone but the basic layout of the estate as it remains today is very similar to the designed landscape with gardens, woodlands, paths and avenues shown on the Ordinance Survey map of 1864.
Baron's Haugh is an important community nature reserve in Motherwell for wildlife and for visitors. There are four hides, looking out at the ducks and swans on the haugh. The reserve is primarily made up of different wetland habitats - open water, wet grassland and muddy edges and pools. These features offer homes for an abundance of different wildlife such as birds, amphibians and insects. The water level is artificially fluctuated to create a dynamic, semi-natural environment.
Grasslands covers another fair chunk of the site and is managed by grazing with livestock to create a varied vegetation community and enhance biodiversity.
In addition to the open, airy habitats, there is also extensive woodland which is home to tawny owls and nuthatches. Dying and dead wood is allowed to decay and in turn provide ideal conditions for fungi and lichen to flourish.
More info can be found here:
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