Mansgrove – Exploring Mains Grave

Mansgrove in the parish of Whitburn, near Longridge and Bents. If you look at Roy’s 1755 Map of the Scottish Lowlands, we see a place to the South West of Whitburn, curiously marked ‘Mains Grave’. However, when we look at later maps, the name has changed to ‘Mansgrove’. So, what is this place? Who was […]