What is recorded here

Castle Avenue still points toward Bothwell Castle, a 13th-century castle in South Lanarkshire that keeps a medieval chapel within its laterchanged life. The castle may have given shelter, command or worship before becoming a ruin, while the chapel continued to mark the place after its martial edge faded. That much is known. What is missing is the sound of the avenue at dusk, the reason it was named, and whether people still walked it when the castle stopped being a home.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bothwell, Castle Avenue, Bothwell Castle as Castle (13th Century), Chapel (medieval) - (post Medieval). 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.

Bothwell Castle was built in the 13th century by the de Quincy family, later held by the Maxwells and the Earls of Lennox. It is historically significant as the site of the 1567 marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley.

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