The pride of Scotland

Situated amid the fertile north-east lowlands of Scotland, near the market town of Inverurie on the borders of Aberdeenshire and historic Banffshire, the 19,000-acre Keith Hall estate was considered to be one of the finest pheasant shoots north of the border by Edwardian sporting journalists and agents.

Seat of the Keith-Falconer family, Earls of Kintore, from 1661 until 1984, the estate was gradually broken up and disposed of between 1914 and 1965, when all that remained was the baronial-style mansion, the landscaped gardens and 635 acres of the surrounding land.

Walked-up shooting started in the vicinity of blocks of woodland that had been planted in the 1730s, but