Strathtyrum

The name Strathtyrum was recorded as Trestirum in 1190,{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Simon |title=Fife Place-name Data - Strathtyrum |url=https://fife-placenames.glasgow.ac.uk/placename/?id=2297 |accessdate=25 May 2020}} and may rooted in either a Gaelic or Pictish etymology. The first element is either Gaelic treabh or Pictish *trev, cognates both meaning "farm, estate, town" (c.f. Welsh tref), assimilated to Gaelic srath, "valley". The second element is possibly Gaelic tioram, "dry", or else an adaptation or translation of an earlier Pictish form.

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The estate was owned by St Andrews Cathedral Priory prior to the Reformation, whereafter ownership was granted to the Duke of Lennox and it subsequently changed hands several times.{{cite book|last1=Leighton|first1=John M|last2=Stewart|first2=James|title=History of the County of Fife: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 3|date=1840|publisher=Joseph Swan|location=Glasgow|page=42|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3YMLAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=17 January 2016}}{{cite book|last1=Lamont-Brown|first1=Raymond|title=St Andrews: City by the Northern Sea|date=2006|publisher=Birlinn|location=Edinburgh|isbn=9781841584508|page=116|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=25BnAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=18 January 2016|quote=After the Reformation, Strathtyrum estate was resumed by the Crown and conferred on the family of the Duke of Lennox. By 1596 the estate passed to James Wood of Lambieletham and was later assumed by the Inglises who sold it to Archbishop James Sharp in 1669; Sharp's dwelling has long vanished. Soon after this the estate was subdivided and in 1782 Strathtyrum was acquired by James Cheape.}} It was purchased by Archbishop James Sharp in 1669 and by James Cheape, the son of a laird, in 1782.{{cite book|last1=Stephen|first1=Thomas|title=The Life and Times of Archbishop Sharp|date=1839|publisher=Joseph Rickerby|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/lifeandtimesarc00stepgoog/page/n653 631]|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeandtimesarc00stepgoog|accessdate=17 January 2016}}

The adjacent property of St Andrews Links on the northern side of the estate was acquired by James Cheape in 1821 and sold by his brother's grandson, also named James Cheape, to The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1893.{{cite book|last1=Hagen|first1=John Peter|title=Play Away Please: The Tale of the Sale of Golf's Greatest Icon – The St Andrews Old Course Starter's Box|date=2011|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781907195754|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6DmAvHQ0tDQC|accessdate=17 January 2016}}{{cite book|last1=Malcolm|first1=David|title=Tom Morris of St Andrews the Colossus of Golf 1821–1908|date=2011|publisher=Birlinn|location=Edinburgh|isbn=9780857901071|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pc68BQAAQBAJ|accessdate=19 January 2016}}{{cite journal|last1=Slovick|first1=Lyle|title=The St Andrews 'Rabbit Wars' of 1801–1821|journal=Through the Green|publisher=British Golf Collectors Society |date=September 2012|url=http://www.golfcollectors.co.uk/u/cms/TTG_102_2012_Sept_Reduced.pdf.pdf|accessdate=17 January 2016}} Control of St Andrews Links was regulated by an act of Parliament in 1894 and another in 1974 which resulted in the creation of the St Andrews Links Trust.{{cite book|last1=Peper|first1=George|title=Two Years in St. Andrews: At Home on the 18th Hole|date=2008|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9781416534310|pages=170–171|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fsc_Ae07HqAC|accessdate=19 January 2016}} The Strathtyrum Course of St Andrews Links, which was opened in 1993, was built on land that was previously part of the estate and sold to the St Andrews Links Trust by Mrs Gladys Cheape in 1986. The Strathtyrum estate was subsequently inherited by Henry Ismay Cheape.{{cite news|title=Students to rent Wills' St Andrews home|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Students+to+rent+Wills'+St+Andrews+home.-a0133736804|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)|date=3 July 2005}}

There are several buildings on the estate including the main residential building Strathtyrum House located opposite the Old Course at St Andrews, a Category A listed building built in the 18th century.{{cite web|title=Strathtyrum House|url=http://www.hha.org.uk/Property/1648/Strathtyrum-House|publisher=Historic Houses Association|accessdate=17 January 2016}}{{cite web|title=STRATHTYRUM HOUSE Reference: LB15817|url=http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/hes/web/f?p=PORTAL:DESIGNATION:::::DES:LB15817|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|accessdate=17 January 2016}} It is a Georgian building three storeys high accompanied by riding stables, a mausoleum and a large walled garden.{{cite book|last1=Glen|first1=Duncan|title=Historic Fife Murders at Falkland, St. Andrews & Magus Muir: Journeys Through Fife Between Forth and Tay|date=2002|publisher=Akros|location=Kirkcaldy|isbn=9780861421350|page=10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYXaAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=18 January 2016|quote=With the semi-circular Roman Doric portico on the pedimented centre of Georgian Strathtyrum House we have moved some way from the cruel world that the Duke of Rothesay knew in 1402.}} It was the rented country residence of publisher John Blackwood who died there in 1879.{{cite book|last1=Porter|first1=Mary Blackwood|title=Annals of a Publishing House|date=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781108021418|url=http://ebooks.cambridge.org/chapter.jsf?bid=CBO9780511696671&cid=CBO9780511696671A014|accessdate=17 January 2016}}{{DNB|prescript=|wstitle=Blackwood, John |first=Francis|last=Espinasse|authorlink=Francis Espinasse|volume=5}}

While attending the University of St Andrews where they met, Prince William and his future wife Catherine Middleton lived in Balgove House on the estate for two years before graduating in 2005.{{cite news|last1=Jobson|first1=Robert|title=Profiles: Prince George's godparents|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/profiles-prince-georges-godparents-8898991.html|accessdate=17 January 2016|work=Evening Standard|date=23 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127184039/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/profiles-prince-georges-godparents-8898991.html|archive-date=27 January 2016|url-status = live}}

• List of Category A listed buildings in Fife
• List of listed buildings in St Andrews And St Leonards, Fife

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• [http://www.strathtyrumhouse.com/index.html Strathtyrum Estate]
• [http://www.eastneukestates.com/the-estates/strathtyrum-35.aspx East Neuk Estates – Strathtyrum]

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