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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Melville like this:
Melville House, a four-story mansion of 1692, with extensive and beautiful grounds, in Monimail parish, Fife, 3 miles N by W of Ladybank. It contains portraits of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and Sir Alexander Leslie, General of the Covenanters, Field-Marshal of Sweden, and first Earl of Leven. ...
Sir Robert Melville (1527-1621), a distinguished diplomatist in the reigns of Mary and James VI., in 1616 was raised to the peerage as Lord Melville of Monimail; and George, fourth Lord Melville, who played an active part in the Revolution times, in 1690 was created Earl of Melville -a title conjoined with that of Leven since 1713. At the death in 1860 of the eighth Earl of Leven, the estate -2157 acres, of £3090 annual value-went to his eldest daughter, Lady Elizabeth Jane Leslie-Melville, who in 1858 had married Thomas Cartwright, Esq. An ancient standing stone, ½ mile SW of the house, rises upwards of 9 feet from the ground, and measures 6 feet in circumference.—Ord. Sur., shs. 48, 40, 1868-67.
Melville is now part of FIFE Council. Click here for graphs and data of how FIFE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Melville itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Melville in Fife | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/31048
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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