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Balcomie Castle, Farmsteading

Farmstead (16th Century)

What is recorded here

Balcomie Castle, Farmsteading stands in Fife as a 16th Century farmstead, not a grand castle. The name suggests a home where a family farmed, raised animals and endured winter storms. Any castle in the title may be memory, pride or mistake. The field and surviving stones still belong to that human life.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Balcomie Castle, Farmsteading as Farmstead (16th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Balcomie Castle, Farmsteading is a 16th-century farmstead recorded in Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment. It is significant as an example of early agricultural settlement structures in rural Scotland.

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