Lendrum Farmhouse Accommodation Aberdeenshire

Welcome tea or coffee with home baked scones served with home made jam are offered in the charming comfortable lounge with views of the beautiful surrounding countryside.
The Scottish style farmhouse is comfortably furnished with period furniture and has central heating and double glazing. Accommodation is offered in a twin bedded en-suite room and a standard triple room with hand basin. Both rooms have hospitality trays
A warm welcome awaits you with tea or coffee and home baked scones and home made jam at Lendrum's traditional Scottish farmhouse, comfortably furnished with period furniture.
Wake up to a delicious traditional Scottish breakfast including a choice of porridge, fresh fruit salad, oatcakes, bacon, local sausages, mushrooms and tomatoes, our delicious home produced free range eggs cooked in the way you like best,home made jams and marmalade, local honey and freshly brewed tea or coffee.
Lendrum is a working farm, producing prize winning grass reared beef from its own cows also Pedigree Suffolk sheep and Malting barley for whisky making.
Over the past 20 years a programme to improve the biodiversity on the farm has been carried out and much wildlife can be seen on a walk round the farm. Pheasants, partridges, Grey Lag Geese, skylarks, lapwing, Roe deer, Brown hares, Badgers are all on the farm. Many small birds breed in the many nest boxes we put up in the garden.
The white painted farmhouse is set in pretty gardens next to the farm buildings and there is ample parking.
Lendrum famous in Scotland as the historic home of the 'Turra Coo'. When Liberal Chancellor Lloyd George brought in the National Insurance Act in 1911, he began a process which catapulted Lendrum to national notoriety and local fame which persists to today. The farmer here one Robert Paterson felt he looked after his workers well enough not to have to pay the government to look after them too, so he didn't.
In 1913 bailiffs came to Lendrum and 'poinded' (seized) a white shorthorn cow intending to auction it in Turriff and set the proceeds against Patterson's unpaid National Insurance contributions. Local farmers gave their ment the day off and 4000 gathered in Turriff in support of Paterson. A riot followed which stopped the auction and made headlines in the National papers, and the cow was taken to Aberdeen where she wasn't sold either. Eventually local farmers bought her and she returned to Turriff. She lived out her life at Lendrum and is buried on the farm.
A statue to the Turra Coo has recently been erected in Turriff to commemorate the 'Turra Coo' and her place in local history.
Another historic event took place almost 900 years ago at Lendrum.
On the 'Bloody Butts' of Lendrum an historic battle was fought in 11th Century between Donald of the Isles, one Donald Bane, brother to King Malcolm Canmore fought the Thane of Buchan. These brothers were sons of King Duncan brought to fame by Shakespeare as the King assassinated by Macbeth in his Scottish historical play. The battle site still named the Bloody Butts o' Lendrum is said to have run red with gore and local supoerstition has it that the harvest may not be gathered without strife amongst the reapers.
Those who survived the battle from the losing side in fear of retribution changed their name to Lendrum. Through the centuries and via Ireland some emigrated to America where the 'Landrum' family is quite extensive it is the subject of a book of the same name. Each year several members of the family visit Lendrum to trace their roots and visit the place of their origin. They are most welcome.

Address : Lendrum Farmhouse Accommodation Birkenhills Turriff Aberdeenshire

Zip / Postal code : AB53 8HA