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Lands of Bogston
Bogston or later Bogstone was a small estate in the old Barony of Giffen near Barrmill in the Parish of Beith, North Ayrshire, once held by collateral descendents of the Montgomeries of Broadstone. The estate covered 160 acres or around 65 hectares, it's rental in 1896 being £180 per annum.〔Dobie, Page 3〕
==Bogston House and estate==
This was a residence of the Montgomerie family and it lay between South Barr, Hayhills and Bogfaulds Farms in what is now DM Beith. Bogston was once a well wooded estate of , with fine plantings, orchards and gardens. The famous Bogston yew tree, when it fell in 1874, was 38 feet high, with a spread of 50 feet, and a circumference of 9 feet 10 inches. At first Bogston was accessed from near the site of Gatend, a farm named from its position,〔Porterfield, Page 40〕 however later a main entrance was created via the old Bellcraig House off the Barrmill to Beith road. Porterfield records that this was in 1775 at the time when Bogston itself was being remodelled as noted below.〔Porterfield, Page 40〕 The parish boundary between Beith and Dalry runs close by, partly along the margin of the Bankhead raised bog.
Robert Montgomery built a substantial but plain house at Bogston in 1775, enclosed the ground and improved the lands.〔Dobie, Page 24〕 He subdivided the ground to create suitable sized fields, planted belts of trees and created a one-third of a mile long entrance that ran from the high road. The house was one of the first in the district to be slated, Morishill being the next.〔Dobie, Page 186〕 A belt of forest trees protected a large and well stocked orchard that surrounded the house on two sides. Plantings included lilac, laburnum, rhododendron, daffodils, etc. The large yew tree stood on the lawn facing the front of the house.〔
The rookery at Bogston was unusual in that the birds had been induced to nest at the site, the first recorded time that this had been achieved〔 until one was likewise 'induced' at Morishill by the simple expedient of tying sticks in the branches. It was noted that upon the death of Robert Wilson Montgomerie or 'Bogston' as he was styled, the crows left the rookery.〔Dobie, page 187〕
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