{{Short description|Historic house in North-East Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} thumb|right|Entrance road to Elsick House [[File:3rd Duke of Fife in Kilt. Allan Warren.jpg|thumb|right|James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, in front of Elsick House<br>(photograph by Allan Warren, 1984)]] '''Elsick House''' is a historic house in Kincardineshire, North-East Scotland. It is situated in an agricultural area about two miles from the North Sea near the town of Newtonhill; the '''Elsick Estate''' is situated within the watershed of the Burn of Elsick, a stream that traverses the estate. The house is located on the Elsick Estate ({{convert|650|ha|acre|abbr=off}}),<ref>Wightman, A., ''Who Owns Scotland'', Edinburgh, 1996, p.86, {{ISBN|0-86241-585-3}}</ref> and is the present family seat of the Duke of Fife.<ref>Wightman, A., 1996, p.86</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/page_cache/kn/elsick.htm |title=Kincardineshire property ownerships: Elsick Estate |publisher=Who Owns Scotland? |accessdate=2007-07-06 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201157/http://www.whoownsscotland.org.uk/page_cache/kn/elsick.htm |archivedate=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early area history== Elsick House is located near the ancient Causey Mounth trackway, which road was constructed in medieval times to make passable this only available route across the coastal region of the Grampian Mounth connecting points south of Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This ancient drovers' road specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the present Bridge of Dee is situated) via Portlethen Moss, Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south.<ref>[http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=17932 C.Michael Hogan, ''Causey Mounth'', Megalithic Portal, ed. by Andy Burnham, 3 November 2007]</ref> The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the first battle of the Civil War in 1639.<ref>Watt, Archibald, ''Highways and Byways around Kincardineshire'', Stonehaven Heritage Society (1985)</ref>
==See also== *Cookney Church *Bannerman baronets *Chapelton of Elsick
==External links== *[https://elsick.co.uk/ Official website]
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