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Cumbernauld Castle: Yesterday and Today

The Deed, number 2, October 2024

The earliest surviving record of Fleming ownership of the Cumbernauld estate dates to a 1315 charter whereby King Robert I (the Bruce) granted to Sir Malcolm Fleming “the Barony of Kirkintilloch … the lands of Lenzie and Cummernald” in return for Malcolm providing a knight for the king’s army and for his service as Sheriff of Dunbarton. The Fleming family retained Cumbernauld for over 600 years.

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