Castles and forts in Scottish Borders
The Discover Alone map has 329 castles and forts in Scottish Borders, 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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Woolandslee TowerBuilding(s) (period Unassigned), Enclosure(s) (period Unassigned), Sheepfold (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Woolandslee Tower still stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house beside an enclosure and sheepfold…
Woodhouse HillTower House (medieval)Woodhouse Hill is a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders, built when local power still wore stone instead of…
Windydoors TowerBastle (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Windydoors Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house later shaped into a post-medieval bastle, its…
Windy WindshielFarmstead (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Windy Windshiel stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house later worked into a post Medieval farmstead…
Whitton TowerTower House (medieval)Whitton Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its stones unchanged since people first climbed…
Whitslaid TowerTower House (16th Century)Whitslaid Tower is a 16th century tower house in the Scottish Borders. Its exact point is already known, yet the tower…
Whiteside TowerTower House (medieval)Whiteside Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its bones old enough to predate most written…
Watch Water ReservoirFarmstead (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Watch Water Reservoir is a post-medieval farmstead and medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders. It is a place…
Wallace's TowerTower House (16th Century)Wallace's Tower rose in the Scottish Borders during the 16th century as a rubble stronghold for the Kerrs of Cessford…
Venlaw CastleCastleVenlaw Castle stands north of Peebles as a surviving Scottish Baronial house built in 1782 for Alexander Stevenson…
Twizel CastleCastle (medieval)Twizel Castle stands near Norham in Northumberland, built during late medieval Anglo-Scottish conflict when local lords…
Tushielaw TowerBuilding(s) (medieval), Enclosure(s) (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Tushielaw Tower is a sixteenth-century tower house built around 1550 by the Scott family in Selkirkshire. It stands as…
Traquair HouseCountry House (17th Century), Sundial (period Unknown), Tower House (15th Century)Mistake. Traquair House is a 17th-century country house in the Scottish Borders that still carries a 15th-century tower…
Torwoodlee TowerTower House (medieval)Torwoodlee Tower is a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders, still standing where it was built. It is the kind…
Tinnis CastleCastle (medieval), Fort (prehistoric)Tinnis Castle stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval castle built beside a prehistoric fort, proving the land….jpg?width=1280)
Tinnis Castle (remains of)Archaeological placeTinnis Castle lies broken in the Scottish Borders, its stones scattered enough to hide the shape of the hall that once…
Timpendean TowerCultivation Remains (period Unassigned), Earthwork(s) (period Unassigned), Garden (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval), Coin (roman)Timpendean Tower is a ruined 15th-century Douglas stronghold near Jedburgh, built with walls four feet thick above…
Thirlestane TowerTower House (16th Century)Thirlestane Tower is a 16th-century tower house in the Scottish Borders, built when border life still turned on…
Thirlestane CastleFort (medieval)Thirlestane Castle occupies Castle Hill near Lauder, where English artillery forts once battered Scottish soil during…
Thirlestane CastleCastle (medieval), Hospital (first World War)Thirlestane Castle is a medieval castle and first World War hospital in the Scottish Borders. The Maitland family owned…
The Castles (fort)Archaeological placeThe Castles (fort) is an archaeological place in Scottish Borders, Scotland. It is no longer a visible castle or a…
Spital TowerTower House (medieval)Spital Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its exact position marked within ten metres.…
Smailholm TowerBarmkin (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Smailholm Tower is a compact stone fortress perched on a rocky crag in the Scottish Borders, built in the 15th century…
Shieldgreen TowerTower House (medieval)Shieldgreen Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its exact position marked within ten metres…
Selkirk CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)Selkirk Castle stood on a medieval motte near The Haining, first recorded in 1119 and rebuilt by Edward I of England in…
Roxburgh CastleCastle (medieval)Roxburgh Castle is a ruined royal fortress overlooking the junction of the Tweed and Teviot, first recorded in 1128 and…
RiddellCountry House (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Riddell stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval country house and tower house, its stones shaped by centuries of…
Riccarton TowerTower House (medieval)Riccarton Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its stones still carrying the shape of hands…
RedheughTower House (medieval)Redheugh stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries of border life. The…
Redbraes CastleCastle (medieval)Redbraes Castle stands as a medieval ruin in the Scottish Borders, its red stones still catching the low light. The…
Posso TowerTower House (medieval)Posso Tower rises in Peeblesshire as a medieval tower house, its stones built to watch the border and hold a household…
Plora BurnFarmstead (period Unassigned), Garden (period Unassigned)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Plora Burn holds a medieval tower house and a possible garden beside a working farmstead in the Scottish Borders. The…
OldcastlesFort (iron Age)Oldcastles is an Iron Age fort in the Scottish Borders, remembered for defending people against uncertainty and change.…
Old Thirlestane CastleCastle (medieval)Old Thirlestane Castle stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval ruin, its stones worn by centuries of rain and…
North SyntonArchitectural Fragment (period Unknown), Farmhouse (19th Century), Farmstead (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century) - (19th Century), Quern (period Unknown)North Synton stands in the Scottish Borders as a layered ruin where a sixteenth-century tower house, a…
Norman's Castle, dun siteArchaeological placeNorman's Castle, dun site is an archaeological place in Scottish Borders, Scotland. A castle name on a dun site…
Norham CastleCastle (medieval)Norham Castle is a medieval fortress in Northumberland, England, overlooking the River Tweed on the border between…
Nisbet HouseTower House (medieval)Nisbet House is a 17th-century mansion in the Scottish Borders that grew around an older pele tower, linking medieval…
Newark CastleTower House (medieval)Newark Castle is a ruined medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders where forest courts judged illegal hunting and…
Nether Horsburgh CastleTower House (medieval)Nether Horsburgh Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower house near Cardrona, in the Scottish Borders, built and occupied…
Neidpath CastleCastle (medieval), Sundial (post Medieval)Neidpath Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house overlooking the River Tweed west of Peebles, built around 1263 by Simon…
Muirhouse CastleTower House (medieval)Muirhouse Castle stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its stones still marking the land where…
Milne GradenEarthwork (period Unknown), Tower House (medieval)Milne Graden is a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders, though its earthwork origin remains unknown. The stone…
Makerstoun HouseCountry House (post Medieval), Sundial (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Makerstoun House stands where a medieval tower, a post-medieval country house, and a 17th-century sundial have shared…
LustrutherTower House (medieval)(possible)Lustruther may have stood as a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders, though no certain account survives to…
LurdenlawTower House (medieval)Lurdenlaw is a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders, built to withstand siege and storm. Its stones still stand…
LongformacusTower House (medieval)Longformacus is a medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders, recorded at a precise point though its interior remains…
Littledean TowerTower House (medieval)Littledean Tower rose above a busy Tweed ford in the 15th century, serving the Kers of Littledean and marking a…
Liddel WaterFarmstead (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Liddel Water stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house and unassigned farmstead, its stones still…
Liddel CastleEarthwork (period Unassigned), Fortification (period Unassigned), Motte and Bailey (medieval)Liddel Castle stands as a ruined motte and bailey in Liddesdale, built presumably by Ranulph de Soules after David I…
Leitholm PeelTower House (medieval)Leitholm Peel stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its stones still marking the land where human….jpg?width=1280)
Lanton TowerTower House (medieval)Lanton Tower is a 16th-century tower house two miles northwest of Jedburgh, built with a vaulted basement, two…
LantonTower House (medieval)Lanton Tower is a 16th-century tower house in the Scottish Borders, about two miles northwest of Jedburgh, with a…
LantonTower House (medieval)Lanton Tower is a 16th-century tower house in the Scottish Borders, built for defence and lived in for centuries.…
Langshaw TowerTower House (medieval)Langshaw Tower stands in the Scottish Borders as a medieval tower house, its exact position still marked though its…
LambertonTower House (medieval), Village (medieval)Lamberton is a hilly Berwickshire estate where Margaret Tudor met James IV in 1503, sealing the union that placed James…
Kirkhope TowerTower House (medieval)Kirkhope Tower is a medieval pele tower in the Ettrick Valley, built early in the 16th century by Walter Scott of…
KirkhopeBuilding(s) (period Unassigned), Church (period Unassigned)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Kirkhope Tower is a square stone pele in the Ettrick Valley, built early in the 16th century by Walter Scott of Harden.…
Jedburgh, Castlegate, Jedburgh Castle JailCastle (medieval), Jail (19th Century)Jedburgh Castle Jail stands on Castlegate as a medieval castle later turned into a 19th Century jail, marking the…
Hutton CastleArmorial Panel (medieval), Castle (16th Century), Moated Site (medieval)Hutton Castle overlooks the Whiteadder Water in the Scottish Borders, where medieval moats still frame a…