Balbirnie House
Posted in Scenery, Fife at 12:00 on 27 March 2021
Balbirnie House was the “big” house nearest to Markinch and was home to the Balfour family before being sold off in 1969. It is now a hotel, the Balbirnie House Hotel and the estate grounds are now Balbirnie Park.
Nearly every morning I walk past it and through its grounds (more than half of which is now a golf course) on my way to Markinch to pick up the Guardian.
This is a photo of the hotel from just over a year ago:-
There had been reasonably heavy rain and a pool of water had collected beside the footpath which skirts the estate road leading upo to the hotel. This was followed by a freeze:-
Lower down the estate road, nearer to Markinch, this area of the golf course had also been flooded and frozen:-
On the other side of the estate road this part of Balbirnie Park remained flooded for almost all of 2020:-
Tags: Balbirnie House, Balbirnie House Hotel, Balbirnie Park., Markinch, The Guardian
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