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Dalmeny Park enclosures is a post-medieval monument lying 420 metres north of Mansion Hill in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. The site occupies land underlain by a Carboniferous to Permian igneous intrusion of dolerite and tholeiitic basalt, bedrock that would have influenced both the settlement's water supply and the character of its soils. Now a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland, the enclosures represent the field organisation and land use patterns of the early modern period on the Dalmeny estate.
Post-medieval enclosures of this type typically marked the transition from open-field or runrig agriculture towards more intensive, enclosed management of land. The proximity to Mansion Hill suggests these enclosures formed part of a broader landscape reorganised in relation to the main residential and administrative centre of the estate. The survival of their boundaries as earthworks, visible in the topography, provides evidence of how landowners restructured their holdings during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
The dolerite bedrock, harder and more resistant than surrounding sedimentary strata, may have dictated local field arrangements and drainage patterns. Such geological factors, combined with the enclosures' documented location within the estate landscape, make this monument significant for understanding the agricultural history and land management strategies of post-medieval Linlithgowshire.
Dalmeny Park,enclosures 420m N of Mansion Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6256. View the official record →
Dalmeny Park enclosures is a post-medieval monument lying 420 metres north of Mansion Hill in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6256.
Dalmeny Park,enclosures 420m N of Mansion Hill dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a enclosures 420m n of mansion hill. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Dalmeny Park,enclosures 420m N of Mansion Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM6256.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Cammo,standing stone (3.6 km), Cammo Canal (3.6 km), Catstane, inscribed stone and long cist cemetery 690m E of Carlowrie (3.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Dalmeny Park,enclosures 420m N of Mansion Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Dalmeny Park,enclosures 420m N of Mansion Hill stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is dolerite and tholeiitic basalt.