Beechwood, a mansion in Corstorphine parish, Edinburghshire, on the S side of Corstorphine Hill. Built in 1770, by a son of Walter Scott of Harden, and sold in 1786 to Colonel Alexander Leslie, in 1797 to Major General David Dundas, it is now a seat of Sir Sidney Jas. Dundas, third Bart. since 1821 (b. 1849; suc. 1877).
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