Eglinton
Down river from Bathurst is the village of Eglinton. It was settled in 1822 by George Ranken and his family who arrived from Scotland via Hobart Town. They settled a grant which they called Kelloshiel, a reminder of their homeland. Rankin built a bridge across the Macquarie River in 1867 which was washed away in the 1867 floods.
Abercrombie House is one of the loveliest of the old neo-Gothic homes in the district. Said to have been modeled on a hunting lodge of a Scottish duke, it is on part of 3,200 acres granted by Governor Darling to Stewart's father, Major-General William Stewart, in 1827. The first house on the grant was Strath (now called Mt. Pleasant) beside the river.
(This has been copied from a book written by the late Harry S. Dorman titled “A PORTRAIT OF BATHURST”. It has been copied by N.S. Greenhalgh for BCW Inc. May 2006. Eglinton is now a suburb of Bathurst)
