Craigenputtock

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Craigenputtock is a craig or whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks), a high moorland farm on the watershed between Dumfriesshire and Galloway, 10 miles from Dumfries.

It was the property for generations of a family of Welshes, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Welsh Carlyle, which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828, where they remained for seven years, and where "Sartor" was written. It is now home to the distinguished Carter-Campbell family.

"It is certain," Carlyle said of it long after, "that for living and thinking in I have never since found in the world a place so favourable.... How blessed," he exclaims, "might poor mortals be in the straitest circumstances if their wisdom and fidelity to heaven and to one another were adequately great!"

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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