Castles and forts in South Lanarkshire
The Discover Alone map has 97 castles and forts in South Lanarkshire, 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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Westhall FarmFarmhouse (19th Century), Farmstead (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)Westhall Farm in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, is a 19th-century farmhouse and farmstead built around a medieval tower…
WaygateshawCountry House (period Unassigned), Sundial (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)Waygateshaw is a medieval tower house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, with an 18th century sundial and a country house…
TweediesideCastle (medieval)(possible)Tweedieside may have been a medieval castle in South Lanarkshire, though no certain fact exists to confirm that claim.…
Tower of HallbarDovecot (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Hallbar Tower stands in South Lanarkshire as a narrow five-storey stone house built in the mid-16th century. Its north…
Tower HouseRuinsTower House is a ruins in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Perhaps the surviving stones still hold the shape of rooms that…
Strathaven CastleCastleAvondale Castle stands as a ruin in Strathaven because James II ordered it sacked in 1455 after the Douglas rebellion.…
StonebyresCountry House (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval)Stonebyres rose from a medieval tower beside the Linn Burn into a sprawling Scots Baronial mansion, hosting Douglas and…
MosscastleTower House (medieval)(possible)Mosscastle is a possible medieval tower house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its exact boundaries and ownership are…
Little ClydeFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Little Clyde in South Lanarkshire is a medieval tower house that later became a working farmstead, recorded in the…_-_geograph.org.uk_-_8240250.jpg?width=1280)
Lee CastleCastleLee Castle stands in South Lanarkshire as the long-time seat of the Lockharts, linking a 13th-century barony to a much…
Lamington TowerCastle (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Lamington Tower was a 16th-century tower house built by William Baillie of Lamington in South Lanarkshire, standing…
GlendorchCastle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Glendorch is a medieval tower house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its stones were stripped and rebuilt into a later…
GladstoneDate Stone (17th Century), Date Stone (18th Century), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Gladstone stands in South Lanarkshire as a possible medieval tower house marked by seventeenth and eighteenth century…
Gilbertfield CastleCastle (medieval)Gilbertfield Castle stands as a dangerous ruin on Dechmont Hill, its east wall lost in the 1950s and its north-west…
Fatlips CastleCastle (medieval)Fatlips Castle is a medieval peel tower built by the Turnbulls of Barnhills in the 16th century, perched above the…
EastshieldDovecot (16th Century), Tower House (medieval)Eastshield stands in South Lanarkshire as a medieval tower house later joined by a 16th-century dovecote, a stone…
EasthillsTower House (medieval)Easthills stands in South Lanarkshire as a medieval tower house, its point marked within ten metres on the national…
Eastend HouseCountry House (18th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Eastend House stands in South Lanarkshire as a layered survivor, wearing an 18th-century country house body over a…_(geograph_4875905).jpg?width=1280)
Drumsargad CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)(possible)Drumsargad Castle stands in South Lanarkshire as a possible medieval motte, its earthworks still shaping the land…
Douglas CastleCastle (17th Century)Douglas Castle stood as the Douglas family seat from the thirteenth century until the nineteenth, surviving English…
CrossbasketCountry House (19th Century), Tower House (16th Century)Crossbasket is a 16th-century tower house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, later developed into a 19th-century country…
CrawfordjohnTower House (medieval)(possible)Out of the World and into Crawfordjohn. That is the old saying that brought John, Baldwin’s Flemish stepson, from…
Crawford CastleCastle (medieval), Motte (medieval)Crawford Castle stands in ruins above the Clyde, guarding the Mennock Pass since 1175 when William Lindsay raised stone…
Craignethan CastleCastle (16th Century)Craignethan Castle is a ruined stone fortification in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, built in the first half of the 16th…
Covington TowerMotte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Covington Tower stands as a medieval tower house in South Lanarkshire, its floors once buried under a metre of rubbish…
Corra CastleCastle (16th Century)Corra Castle stands ruined above Corra Linn, its sharp cliffs and hidden ha-ha proving that bravery, not walls, defined…
Cormiston TowersTower House (medieval)(possible)Cormiston Towers stands in South Lanarkshire as a possible medieval tower house, its exact boundary hidden beneath…
Castlehill, CandybankFort (period Unassigned)Castlehill, Candybank stands as an unassigned fort in South Lanarkshire, its exact age hidden beneath grass and time.…
Castle QuaCastle (medieval), Earthwork (bronze Age)Castle Qua is a medieval castle and bronze Age earthwork hidden inside the Cartland Craigs National Nature Reserve near…
Castle Hill, CrawfordFort (prehistoric), House Platform (prehistoric)Castle Hill, Crawford stands as a prehistoric fort and house platform in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The earth itself…
CanderTower House (medieval)Cander stands in South Lanarkshire as a medieval tower house, its exact position still debated within a kilometre. The…
Calderwood CastleTower House (medieval)Calderwood Castle rose as a rectangular tower house on a precipice above the Rotten Calder Water in the early fifteenth…
Cadzow CastleCastle (medieval)Cadzow Castle is a ruined medieval tower house in South Lanarkshire, built about two centuries after the Hamilton…
Cadzow Castle (ruin)CastleCadzow Castle (ruin) stands in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, reduced to a ghost of its former shape. The land may have…
Bower of WandelBuilding(s) (medieval), Castle (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Bower of Wandel as Building(s) (medieval), Castle…
BoghouseTower House (medieval)(possible)Boghouse Castle was a 14th-century tower house near Crawfordjohn, South Lanarkshire, now vanished beneath a working…
Boghall CastleCastle (medieval)Boghall Castle, a Flemings stronghold in South Lanarkshire, reduced to two drum towers and a stair fragment after…
Arbory Hill FortFortArbory Hill Fort stands in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where a hill was shaped into a defensible place. The land may…
Biggar, High StreetSchool (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Biggar, High Street is a possible medieval tower house that later became a school, where children climbed stairs once…
Cow CastleFort (iron Age), Settlement (iron Age)Cow Castle is an Iron Age fort and settlement in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its earthworks still mark a place where…
Westhall Farm, Tower HouseTower House (medieval)Westhall Farm, Tower House stands in South Lanarkshire as a medieval tower house, its exact position known to the…
East Kilbride, Mains CastleMotte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)Mains Castle in East Kilbride may be a medieval motte, a tower house, or both, and that uncertainty leaves the place…
High House of EdmonstonTower House (medieval)No. That is an invented claim about a hidden owner, not a visible fact in the supplied material. I will not write it as…- West WhitecastleCultivation Remains (medieval) - (post Medieval), Fort (prehistoric)West Whitecastle is a prehistoric fort in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, later marked by medieval and post-medieval…
- Udstonhead FarmFarmhouse (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Udstonhead Farm stands in South Lanarkshire beside a medieval tower house, marking the point where old defensive…
- TodholesTower House (medieval)Todholes is a medieval tower house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, standing as a compact stone monument to local power…
- Strathaven, Stonehouse Road, Avondale CastleCastle (medieval)Avondale Castle stands on Stonehouse Road in Strathaven, a medieval ruin reduced to foundations and scattered stone. It…
- Site of Lickprivick CastleArchaeological placeLickprivick Castle has vanished into South Lanarkshire soil, leaving behind a ghost of walls and a memory of power. Men…
- Site of Hamilton of Torrance CastleCastleHamilton of Torrance Castle stands in South Lanarkshire, listed as a castle on the public map. The saved point marks…
- Rough HillMotte (medieval), Tower House (medieval)Rough Hill is a medieval motte and tower house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Earth and stone still mark the hill…
- Ringsdale CastleCastle (medieval)Ringsdale Castle is a medieval castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Its stones may have marked a boundary, a home or…
- Peel CastleCastlePeel Castle stands ruined on St Patrick's Isle in the Isle of Man, not South Lanarkshire, where it served as the…
- ParkhallCastle (medieval), Hollow Way (period Unassigned)Parkhall emerged beside the Manuel Burn when Archibald Crawford granted land to his relative David, creating a cadet…
- Ogs CastleTower House (medieval)Ogs Castle stands in South Lanarkshire as a medieval tower house, its stones still holding the shape of hands that…
- MoatMoat (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)(possible)Moat is a possible medieval tower house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The name suggests a water-defended home rather…
- Mauldslie CastleCastle (medieval)Mauldslie Castle stood in Dalserf until 1935, when the mansion was demolished and the estate sold in forty lots. It…
- Lanark CastleCastle (medieval), Coin(s) (roman)Lanark Castle stood as a medieval stronghold in South Lanarkshire, overlooking the River Clyde and the busy market town…
- JerviswoodLairds House (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Jerviswood is a medieval tower house later improved as a 17th-century lairds house in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It…
- Hamilton PalaceCountry House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Hamilton Palace rose from a medieval tower house into one of the grandest country houses in the British Isles before…
- Hamilton, 'castlehill'Castle (medieval)(possible)Castlehill in South Lanarkshire may have been a medieval castle, though no certain fact exists to confirm that claim.…