Castles and forts in East Lothian
The Discover Alone map has 65 castles and forts in East Lothian, Scotland. Below are the 60 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Yester Castle and Goblin Ha'Motte and Bailey (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Goblin Ha' is a medieval motte and bailey beside Yester Castle in East Lothian, where a wooden hall likely stood before…
Yester CastleCastleYester Castle stands broken on a triangular promontory above Gifford, its vaulted keep and fourteenth-century wall…
Tantallon CastleCastle (medieval)Tantallon Castle is the last medieval curtain wall fortress built in Scotland, rising on a sea cliff in East Lothian…
Stoneypath TowerDovecot (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Stoneypath Tower is a medieval tower house on a high perpendicular freestone cliff above the Pappana in East Lothian…
Seacliff TowerTower House (medieval)Seacliff Tower stands as a medieval tower house in East Lothian, its stones marked by age rather than modern polish.…
Saltoun HallCastle (medieval), Country House (19th Century)Saltoun Hall stands in East Lothian, Scotland, carrying a medieval castle foundation beneath a 19th Century country…
Redhouse CastleTower House (medieval)Redhouse Castle is a medieval tower house in East Lothian, Scotland. John Laing, Keeper of the Signet, built it shortly…
Preston TowerTower House (medieval)Preston Tower rose as a four-storey stronghold in Prestonpans before the Hamiltons claimed it, forcing intruders…
LennoxloveCountry House (17th Century), Tower House (15th Century), Wall(s) (17th Century) (1680)Lennoxlove is a 17th-century country house in East Lothian, Scotland, built around a 15th-century tower and bounded by…
Kilspindie CastleCastle (medieval)Kilspindie Castle is a vanished tower in East Lothian, reduced to scattered stones and oval gun loops behind St Mary's…
Hailes CastleCastle (medieval), Graffiti (19th Century) - (20th Century), Graffiti (21st Century)Hailes Castle rose beside the River Tyne in the early 1300s as a modest de Gourlay stronghold before the Hepburns…
Gullane, Saltcoats Road, Saltcoats CastleArchitectural Fragment (17th Century), Castle (16th Century)Saltcoats Castle stands in East Lothian as a 16th-century structure still bearing a 17th-century architectural…
Green CastleFort (prehistoric), Fort (medieval)Green Castle stands in East Lothian as both a prehistoric and medieval fort, a rare double life recorded without…
Garleton CastleCastle (16th Century), House (18th Century)Garleton Castle stands in East Lothian, Scotland, where a sixteenth-century fortress became an eighteenth-century…
Gamelshiel CastleRuinsGamelshiel Castle is a ruined fortified structure in East Lothian, Scotland, built during the medieval period and…
Fenton TowerCastleFenton Tower is a fortified castle in East Lothian, Scotland, built around 1550 by Patrick Whytelaw. James VI of…
Falside CastleDovecot (17th Century), House (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Falside Castle stands in East Lothian as a layered survivor, wearing a medieval tower house beneath a 17th-century…
Fa'side CastleCastleFa'side Castle is a 15th-century keep in East Lothian, Scotland, where Mary, Queen of Scots changed into a short skirt….jpg?width=1280)
Elphinstone TowerTower House (medieval)Elphinstone Tower is a ruined medieval tower house in East Lothian, Scotland. It is also known as Dunmore Tower or…
Dunbar CastleCastle (medieval)Dunbar Castle stands as a ruined medieval fortress in East Lothian, Scotland, where the Votadini first defended the…
Dirleton CastleCastle (medieval)Dirleton Castle is a ruined medieval fortress in East Lothian, Scotland, built around 1240 by John de Vaux to guard the…
Castle MoffatMotte and Bailey (medieval)(possible)Castle Moffat stands in East Lothian as a possible medieval motte and bailey, its earthworks still shaping the land…
Carberry TowerCountry House (17th Century) - (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Carberry Tower began as a plain stone box for watching the coast, but it became the stage where Mary, Queen of Scots…
Blackcastle HillFort (prehistoric), Settlement (prehistoric)Blackcastle Hill is an Iron Age fort above Innerwick in East Lothian, Scotland. Its one surviving earth bank still…
Belton HouseCountry House (19th Century) - (20th Century), Tower House (medieval)Belton House in East Lothian is recorded as a medieval tower house later shaped into a country house, not the grand…
Bass CastleCastleBass Castle stands as a ruined wall on Bass Rock, where a lighthouse now casts its beam through the same stones that…
Auldhame CastleRuinsYellow Auldhame castle stood bright above Seacliff bay, a substantial L-plan house with corner turrets and square…
White CastleFort (prehistoric)White Castle is a prehistoric fort in East Lothian, Scotland, where ancient people shaped stone against coming danger.…
LongniddryCastle (medieval)Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Longniddry as Castle (medieval). The official map says…
Bass Rock, CastleCastle (medieval), Prison (17th Century)Bass Rock is a volcanic castle island in East Lothian that became a prison where men faced drowning if they swam away.…
Dirleton Castle, TowerTower House (medieval)Dirleton Castle, Tower stands in East Lothian, Scotland. The medieval tower house still touches the sky. Whether people…
White Castle FortArchaeological placeNo chamber fits that much life, so the overflowed into the novel. Build the smallest visible chamber possible, publish…
Fidra, Castle TarbetCastle (medieval)Fidra is a medieval castle in East Lothian, Scotland. The finished answer should contain the requested story, not an…- Woodhall HouseCountry House (19th Century) (1884), Tower House (16th Century)Woodhall House stands in Juniper Green, Edinburgh, carrying a sixteenth-century tower beneath an 1884 country-house…
- Whittingehame TowerGarden (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Whittingehame Tower is a fifteenth-century stone keep beside Whittinghame Water where Morton, Bothwell and Maitland…
- Waughton Castle and Garden WallCastle (medieval), Wall (period Unassigned)Waughton Castle and Garden Wall stand in East Lothian, Scotland, as a medieval castle and an unassigned wall. The…
- Waughton CastleRuinsWaughton Castle is a fourteenth-century ruin where a small tower still rises twenty-five feet above a rock terrace in…
- Tranent TowerDovecot (post Medieval), Tower House (16th Century)Tranent Tower stands in East Lothian as a sixteenth-century tower house later fitted with a dovecot, blending defensive…
- Thornton CastleCastle (medieval)Thornton Castle stood opposite Innerwick Castle across Thornton Glen until English cannons and gunpowder erased it in…
- The MagazineCastleThe Magazine stands as a castle in East Lothian, yet no human hand has shaped its rooms or laid its floors. It is a…
- The Castles, FortFort (prehistoric)No visible trace remains at The Castles, Fort. The name suggests a castle, but the fact is a fort, and the absence of a…
- Smeaton HouseTower House (medieval), Wall(s) (medieval)Smeaton House began as a fifteenth-century castle for Dunfermline Abbey before Robert Richardson rebuilt it in 1577 and…
- Old Craighall, Old Craighall Road, Monkton HouseCountry House (17th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Old Craighall stands on Old Craighall Road in East Lothian, carrying both a sixteenth-century tower and a…
- Nunraw HouseCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Nunraw House in East Lothian, Scotland, is a 16th-century tower house later shaped as a 19th-century country home. It…
- Musselburgh, High Street, Pinkie HouseSchool (20th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Pinkie House stands on Musselburgh High Street as a sixteenth-century tower house later reused as a twentieth-century…
- Kingston, Fenton TowerTower House (medieval)Kingston, Fenton Tower stands in East Lothian as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries of weather and…
- Innerwick CastleFort (prehistoric)Innerwick Castle was a Hamilton stronghold on the edge of a precipitous glen, burned in 1547 when English soldiers…
- Innerwick CastleCastle (medieval)Innerwick Castle is a ruined medieval stronghold on the edge of a precipitous glen in East Lothian, built in the 14th…
- HerdmanstonTower House (medieval)Herdmanston stood near Haddington as a medieval tower house where Andrew Douglas of Hermiston, ancestor of the…
- GamelshielTower House (medieval)Gamelshiel stands in East Lothian as a medieval tower house, its stones still marking the ground where human hands…
- Dunglass HouseCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned)Dunglass House stands in East Lothian, Scotland, recorded as a medieval castle later shaped into a country house. Its…
- Dunbar, Castle ParkBuilding (17th Century), Ditch (16th Century), Fort (iron Age) - (early Medieval)Dunbar Castle Park holds a 17th-century building, a 16th-century ditch and an Iron Age fort, layers of human ambition…
- Dunbar, Castle ParkBuilding(s) (early Medieval), Courtyard (12th Century), Cross (7th Century), Promontory Fort (iron Age), Wall(s) (medieval), Coin(s) (early Medieval)Dunbar Castle Park layers an Iron Age promontory fort, early Medieval buildings, a 7th-century cross, 12th-century…
- Castle Hill, East LinksCastle (medieval)Castle Hill, East Links stands as a medieval castle in East Lothian, Scotland. Its exact position is known within ten…
- Castle Dykes, BilsdeanCist(s) (period Unassigned), Fort (prehistoric), Inorganic Material (glass)(roman)Castle Dykes, Bilsdean holds a prehistoric fort and unassigned cists, with Roman glass buried beside them. The site…
- BielCountry House (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)Biel in East Lothian is an 18th-century country house built around a medieval tower house, preserving two eras in one…
- Barnes CastleCastle (16th Century)Barnes Castle stood in East Lothian during the 16th Century, a private stone anchor in a busy coastal landscape. It may…
- The GunholesCastleThe Gunholes is a castle in East Lothian, Scotland. Perhaps its name records the moment stone first learned the shape…
- Black Castle, OldhamstocksCastle (medieval)Black Castle in Oldhamstocks stands as a medieval castle in East Lothian, Scotland. Its exact position is known within…
- Yester HouseTower House (medieval)Yester House is a medieval tower house in East Lothian, Scotland. The surrounding area contains several historic sites…