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As you can see from the pictures the house in Netherplace has been a magnificent building.
Netherplace, the ancient name of which is declared by some who have given the subject some
consideration to have been Cowfieldshaw or Cowfauldshaw (carelessly pronounced Cockleshaw),
was once the property of Colonel Hamilton Campbell, D.S.O. and after that by James Baird
Thorneycroft, Esq., of Messrs. William Baird & Co., Ironmasters. In Burns day the Kings highway
would run in front of the house.Opposite the entrance there was one of the finest Yew trees
in the country. It was supposed to be over 700 years old was 30 feet high and 50 yards in
circumference. Round the trunk there was an open canopy that could easily hold 50 people
and was known locally as "the big tree" where children would play for hours. All of this is
now gone to make way for private housing.
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