Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Port William HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>No</p> OpeningTime1 10.00-17.00 IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 9181 Refreshments No Street The street address Old Place of Monreith Postcode DG8 9PX Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Old Place of Monreith Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived dumfriesandgalloway Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1112 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Description An account of the resource <p>Old Place of Monreith is a typical, plain, lowland laird's house, still nominally fortified, at the end of a long track. It was once the home of the Maxwells, including the famous beauty Jean, later Duchess of Gordon, and the ancestors of Sir Herbert, historian and gardener, and of the author Gavin Maxwell, who wrote 'Ring of Bright Water', and spent his boyhood in the district. It had become derelict but was bought and restored by its present owners, The Landmark Trust.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1600