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From the Hotel door turn left to the corner and turn left again to walk up the slope to the first corner. There you will see a bluestone cottage, called Dunrobin, which was built in 1855. It was sold to Andrew Elder in 1865 ( who bought it for Henry and Alexandrina Waugh, his wife's parents, to live in). The family played a large part in Skipton's early days, and descendants of the Elder family still live in the town today. Alexandrina Waugh (nee Dempster ) lived in her youth art "Skibo Castle" in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, close to the Duke of Sutherland's "Dunrobin Castle" . When Mrs. Doreen Heffron bought the cottage in 1979 there was plenty of work to be done. The garden has been built from scratch, eight hundred bricks wheeled in by wheel barrow, the whole garden built up on the solid rock base. At any time of the year there are flowers filling the garden of 'Dunrobin'. In the foreground is a remnant of Skipton's bluestone guttering
