Castles and forts in Midlothian
The Discover Alone map has 30 castles and forts in Midlothian, Scotland. Below are the 30 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Uttershill CastleCastleUttershill Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house south of Penicuik that belonged to the Prestons of Gorton and…
Rosslyn CastleCastleRosslyn Castle is a ruined, habitable stone fortress in Midlothian, Scotland, built by the Sinclair family from the…
Roslin CastleCastle (medieval)Roslin Castle clings to the rock face in Midlothian, where Henry Sinclair first fortified the site in the fourteenth…
Ravensneuk CastleCastle (medieval)Ravensneuk Castle stands in Midlothian as a medieval ruin, its exact position known though its history has faded from…
Newhall HouseCastle (medieval), Country House (18th Century), Monastery (medieval)Newhall House in Midlothian, Scotland, has worn three identities: a medieval castle, a medieval monastery, and an…
Newbyres CastleTower House (medieval)Newbyres Castle was a 16th-century tower house in Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland, built by Michael Borthwick of…
Melville CastleCastle (medieval), Country House (period Unassigned), Hotel (period Unassigned)Melville Castle is a three-storey Gothic mansion near Dalkeith, Midlothian, rebuilt in 1786 for Henry Dundas after the…
Hirendean CastleTower House (medieval)Hirendean Castle stands in Midlothian as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by age rather than grand display. It…
Hawthornden CastleCastle (medieval)Hawthornden Castle is a medieval castle in Midlothian, Scotland, where a 15th-century tower and a 1638 L-plan house…
Fala LuggieTower House (medieval)Fala Luggie is a medieval tower house near Gorebridge, Midlothian, where only a thick southeast wall still stands above…
Dalkeith HouseCastle (medieval), Country House (18th Century)Dalkeith House began as a medieval castle and reappeared as an 18th Century country house, recording both martial…
Dalhousie CastleCountry House (period Unassigned), Tower House (15th Century)Dalhousie Castle rose around 1450 from red stone quarried across the South Esk River, overlaying older foundations that…
Crichton CastleCastle (medieval)Crichton Castle rose in Midlothian during the late 14th century as a tower house for John de Crichton, but it became a…
Borthwick CastleTower House (medieval)Borthwick Castle rose in 1430 as a massive U-shaped tower house for Sir William Borthwick, its thick walls guarding a…
Borthwick Castle HotelCastleBorthwick Castle Hotel stands in Midlothian, Scotland, wearing the shape of a castle while offering the warmth of a…
BlackcastleFortified House (medieval)Blackcastle is a medieval fortified house in Midlothian, Scotland. Its exact location is not fully known, but it…- Woodhouselee, Tower of FulfordCountry House (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Fulford Tower rose in the medieval period, then Woodhouselee reopened the same land as a post-medieval country house.…
- Southside CastleGrange (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Southside Castle stands in Midlothian as a medieval grange and tower house, its stones marked by age rather than…
- Penicuik, Castle Brae, Uttershill CastleTower House (medieval)Uttershill Castle stands as a medieval tower house on Castle Brae in Penicuik, its exact position known to the nearest…
- Oxenfoord CastleCountry House (18th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Oxenfoord Castle is a private country house in Midlothian where Robert Adam transformed a MacGill tower into a grand…
- Old Woodhouselee CastleCastle (medieval)Old Woodhouselee Castle is a late medieval tower house near Penicuik in Midlothian, built in the fifteenth century for…
- Newton HouseCountry House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Newton House stands in Midlothian as a medieval tower house now recorded without a clear period, its stones still…
- Newhall HouseCastle (medieval), Chapel (medieval)Newhall House stands in Midlothian as a medieval castle and chapel, its stones marked by centuries of local life. The…
- Maiden CastleEarthwork (prehistoric) - (medieval)(possible), Promontory Fort (prehistoric)(possible)Maiden Castle in Midlothian, Scotland is a prehistoric earthwork that may also date to the medieval period and could be…
- Cousland CastleCastle (medieval), Chapel (period Unknown), Garden (17th Century), House (16th Century), Nunnery (medieval)(possible)Cousland Castle began as a St Clair hunting lodge before passing through Ruthven, Herries and Stair hands, suffering…
- Coaltown TowerTower House (medieval)Coaltown Tower stands in Midlothian as a medieval tower house, its stones unchanged since people first climbed it. The…
- Catcune CastleTower House (medieval)Catcune Castle was a medieval L-plan tower house built by the Sinclairs on a rock outcrop south of Gorebridge. Its main…
- Castle Law, Glencorse Man-made underground passageBoundary Stone(s) (20th Century), Cultivation Terrace(s) (medieval), Cup Marked Stone (neolithic), Fort (prehistoric), Rig and Furrow (medieval), Man-made underground passage (iron Age)Castle Law, Glencorse holds an Iron Age underground passage beside prehistoric fort remains and neolithic cup marks.…
- Cakemuir CastleArmorial Panel (16th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Cakemuir Castle stands in Midlothian as a surviving 16th-century tower house, its stones still carrying an armorial…
- Brunston CastleCastle (medieval), Fishpond (period Unassigned)(possible)Brunston Castle stands in Midlothian as a medieval ruin, possibly accompanied by a forgotten fishpond. Its stones have…