 In 1881 the Census records that a Minister, Mr. William McAnespin lived here, together with his sister Jannette McAnespin and a servant Marion Mackay.A weir still exists on the Lugton Water near here and this was the site of a drowning in the 1990s.Saughtrees on the Eglinton estate side of the road was a gamekeepers cottage in 1837.