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  The National Trust for Scotland has been acquiring heritage gardens in Scotland for many years. 2005 was the 60th anniversary of the Trust`s first garden acquisition when it accepted the great estates of Culzean Castle and Leith Hall in 1945. The Timeline below shows the chronology of the acquisition of NTS garden properties, though in some cases the dates given preceed those of legal acquisition (when title deeds/bequests legally completed) by a couple of years.

Click on a Property to see further details - where property name is underlined.

Sites in Italics = owned but not managed by NTS
Sites in {Brackets} = managed but not owned by NTS

1940s - First Gardens acquired

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

Since 1990s

Pre-1945 Acquisitions

The acquisition of the following properties by the NTS is listed here for completeness, but whilst they do now contain excellent gardens, these were not present at the time of acquisition and have since been created, or acquired, by the NTS subsequent to the purchase of the property.

 
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