Bonally Tower, a mansion in Colinton parish, Edinburghshire, 5 miles SW of Edinburgh, and 1¼ S of Colinton station. Standing at the base of the Pentland Hills, and engirt by exquisite grounds, through which two head-streams of the Braid Burn descend from Capelaw Hill and from the neighbouring Clubbiedean and Torduff reservoirs, it comprises a peel tower, added in 1838 to an older house, and was the seat of the judge Lord Cockburn (1779-1854) from 1811 till his death here, as later of Wm. Ballantyne Hodgson, LL. D. (1815-80), professor of economic science in the University of Edinburgh.
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