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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sarah Ward

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Farm where burns wrote auld lang syne to be restored if 12m can be raised - What They Never Told You

Duncan Dornan and Joan McAlpine in The Spence – Robert Burns’ study at Ellisland Farm(Colin Hattersley Photography/PA) -

Campaigners hope the farm where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne can be saved with an international fundraising appeal seeking to raise £12 million.

Scotland’s bard built Ellisland Farm, near Dumfries, in Dumfries and Galloway, himself aged 29, as a home for his wife and children.

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