Langholm Lodge was a summer residence for the Duke of Buccleuch and his family, built in 1796. He would invite distinguished guests to stay, go shooting on his grouse moor and play cricket on the ground near the lodge.
The Duke’s Langholm grouse moor was on the other side of Whita Hill which is in the background of the photo below.
Crossing the River Esk close to the lodge is the Duchess Bridge, built in 1813 and now the oldest surviving cast iron bridge in Scotland. It replaced a decaying wooden structure, also called the Duchess Bridge, both named after the Duchess of Buccleuch, Elizabeth Scott (1743-1827). Her husband Henry Scott (1746-1812), 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, died the year before the iron bridge’s construction.
The main building of Langholm Lodge was demolished in 1953.