Overview of Dalmeny

A planned village on the Dalmeny Estate, Dalmeny lies to the east of South Queensferry and west of the city of Edinburgh close to the A90 road approaching the Forth Bridge. Its fine 12th century Norman church and stone built cottages were built around a square, the whole village now being designated a Conservation Area. In the 1930s, both the church and village were renovated by volunteers, miners' cottages having been razed and their occupants moved to modern Council housing nearby in 1938. Built in 1814-17 for the 3rd Earl of Rosebery to a design by William Wilkins, Dalmeny House was the first Tudor Gothic Revival house in Scotland. Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery, who collected items associated with Napoleon now on display in the house, supported William Gladstone's Midlothian campaign in 1880 and was himself Prime Minister in 1894-5. Dalmeny House replaced the former residence of Barnbougle Castle on the shores of the Firth of Forth which had been a stronghold of the Primrose family since 1662. Barnbougle had originally been a keep of the Moubrays, Norman knights and crusaders who had come with William the Conqueror to Britain.