Chesters (estate)

Chesters is a 1,565-acre (633 ha) country estate near Ancrum, located on the banks of the River Teviot in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland.

The house was built for Thomas Elliot Ogilvie who purchased the estate in 1787 with money he obtained while working for the Madras Civil Service.

By 1790 it had been re- designed by local Borders architect William Eliot for Thomas and Hannah Ogilvie.

[1] Emily Gerard, a writer who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, was born here in 1849.

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