Alexander Silver

Alexander Silver was a wealthy East India trader, who lived in Netherley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in the late 1700s; he and his son George Silver were noted agricultural innovators of their era. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=nA4AAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA321&lpg=PA321&dq=%22george+silver%22+kincardineshire&source=web&ots=-lR6-uh59E&sig=CJkQLJVdKHx6ZYVbSa1F7wBlYik#PPA149,M1 George Robertson, "A general view of Kincardineshire or the Mearns" (1810)] ] Alexander Silver built the Netherley House mansion in Netherley and died there in 1797. [Douglas Gordon Barron, "The Court Book of the Barony of Urie in Kincardineshire: 1604-1747", published 1892] Alexander's son George acquired the estate of nearby Muchalls Castle by the year 1841.

Notable natural features in the vicinity include Red Moss and Meikle Carewe Hill. Notable historic features in this area include Raedykes Roman Camp and Maryculter House.

History

Roman legions marched from Raedykes to Normandykes Roman Camp through the Durris Forest as they sought higher ground evading the bogs of Red Moss and other low-lying mosses associated with the Burn of Muchalls. That march employed the Elsick Mounth, one of the ancient trackways crossing the Mounth of the Grampian Mountains, [ [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18037 C. Michael Hogan, "Elsick Mounth", Megalithic Portal, editor: Andy Burnham] ] lying west of Netherley.

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