Kirklands, an estate, with a mansion, in Ancrum parish, Roxburghshire, 7 furlongs WNW of the village. The mansion, on a wooded height, overhanging Ale Water, was erected about 1830 after designs by Blore of London; and is a handsome edifice in the Tudor style. Its owner, Col. Roland Richardson, Esq. (b. 1821; suc. 1864), holds 70 acres in the shire, valued at £188 annum.—Ord. Sur., sh. 17, 1864.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)