St Ronan’s Wells was built by the 7th Earl of Traquair in 1826 to provide somewhere where the leisured classes could take the waters at their ease. Before then it was a muddy field with a bench. It transformed Innerleithen from a hamlet with 400 people into a bustling town in the summer with nearly…
St Ronan's Wells was built by the 7th Earl of Traquair in 1826 to provide somewhere where the leisured classes could take the waters at their ease. Before then it was a muddy field with a bench. It transformed Innerleithen from a hamlet with 400 people into a bustling town in the summer with nearly 1500 people. Courtesy of Catherine Maxwell Stuart, a few weeks ago some of us paid a visit to Traquair House to look at some letters that he wrote concerning The Wells and Innerleithen and the original plans for the building. Margaret Fox is the archivist and showed us a treasure trove of documents. Over the next few weeks we will share these with you. They are fascinating. As a taster here are some of the original drawings. These are displayed courtesy of the Traquair House Charitable Trust and by the generosity of Catherine Maxwell Stuart and the assistance of Margaret Fox, Traquair curator.
