In 1774 Charles Scott created other sub-tack contracts to William Gray tenant in Buteland of a field of muir ground near Bavelaw
By 1871 the house was the residence of Archibald GILCHRIST a Shepherd with his wife and daughter while a nearby cottage was occupied by a Pond keeper and his family.
By 1901 a Shepherd, an elderly widower with a housekeeper, occupied a house which had been refurbished with a new pantiled roof
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The first appearance of Redford is on a map in 1773 and it occupies a site close to or replacing the farm of North Bavelaw recorded on John Laurie’s map of 1766.
