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Ballikinrain is an independent residential school in Stirling, central Scotland. It is run by CrossReach, a social care outreach arm of the Church of Scotland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ballikinrain School )〕 The school is housed in the 19th-century Ballikinrain Castle, situated in the Parish of Killearn, south-east of Balfron and west of Fintry. ==History== Ballikinrain Castle was built in 1868 for Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, (1818–1893) a Conservative Party politician. Orr-Ewing was Member of Parliament (MP) for Dunbartonshire from 1868 to 1892, and was created a baronet on 8 March 1886. He commissioned David Bryce (1803–1876) to design a new house in the Scottish Baronial style, for his estate. The location is alongside the Ballinkinrain Burn, which rises to the south, on the Earl's Seat (), and runs for about across Ballikinrain Muir and through the estate, making in its descent a number of cascades, to the Endrick Water. The castle was burned-out in June 1913, the blaze being attributed to suffragettes,〔Picture in Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum〕 causing £100,000 of damage. It was rebuilt in 1916. In the early 20th century Ballikinrain Castle hosted Glasgow Poor Children's Fresh-Air Fortnight accommodating about 60 poor children. For a short time it was a hotel. Later, on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, St. Hilda's School for Girls, a boarding school based at Liberton near Edinburgh, took up temporary residence at Ballikinrain Castle. After the war St Hilda's remained at Ballinkinrain, owing to the difficulty of securing a satisfactory renovation of the buildings at Liberton, which had been used by the army. The building is protected as a category B listed building.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ballikinrain Castle )〕 Between 1950-1965 there was a tourist caravan and camping site, complete with site shop and outside swimming pool, within the grounds. The pool was fed by Campsie spring water.〔http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/341465〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballikinrain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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