Castles and forts in West Lothian
The Discover Alone map has 24 castles and forts in West Lothian, Scotland. Below are the 23 with the most written about them, pictures first. Every one has its own page with directions and places nearby.
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Staneyhill TowerTower House (17th Century)Staneyhill Tower rose around 1630 as a sharp-edged house for the Shairps family, its unusual hexagonal stair tower…
Peel of LivingstonCastle (medieval), Earthwork (period Unassigned), House (period Unassigned), Tower House (medieval)Peel of Livingston stands in West Lothian as a medieval castle and tower house, its stones still catching the low light…
Murieston CastleCastle (medieval), Tower (16th Century)Murieston Castle is a ruined 16th-century tower in West Lothian, Scotland, restored around 1824 for John Keir after…
Midhope CastleTower House (medieval)Midhope Castle is a medieval tower house in West Lothian, Scotland, where conflicting claims and marital transactions…
Lochcote CastleCastle (medieval), Dovecot (19th Century)Lochcote Castle stood beside a living loch until 1820, when Peter Wishart drained the water to plant crops. Men pulled…
Cairns CastleTower House (medieval)Cairns Castle is a ruined fifteenth-century tower house on the northern slope of the Pentland Hills, beside Harperrig…
Pumpherston FarmCastle (medieval), Dovecot (period Unassigned)Pumpherston Farm holds a medieval castle and an unassigned dovecote in West Lothian, Scotland. Stone walls and bird…
Bridge CastleHotel (20th Century), Tower House (medieval)None of the supplied facts identify a unique Bridge Castle in West Lothian or explain what its medieval tower and later…
Ochiltree CastleCastleNo new exact name appears in the preceding exchange. The instruction may have come from a different session, or the…
Niddry CastleTower House (medieval)No. There is no fact that the castle is gone. The facts still describe an existing castle.- Tartraven CastleCastle (medieval)Tartraven Castle stands in West Lothian, Scotland, a medieval ruin whose construction date has slipped from human…
- Strathbrock CastleCastle (medieval)Strathbrock Castle vanished from the valley of the badger, leaving only a memory of a small circular hill near…
- Robb's CastleRuinsRobb's Castle is a ruins in West Lothian, Scotland. Perhaps the stones still hold the shape of rooms that stopped…
- Ogilface CastleCastle (medieval)(possible), Covenanters Meeting Place (17th Century)Ogilface Castle rose in Armadale during the mid 12th century before becoming a possible Covenanters refuge in the 17th…
- Newyearfield FarmTower House (medieval)Newyearfield Farm began as a medieval tower house in West Lothian, a time when local power often wore stone walls…
- Harburn EstateTower House (medieval)(possible)Harburn Estate is a possible medieval tower house beneath a 19th-century park in West Lothian. Alexander Young built…
- East ColziumFarmhouse (19th Century), Tower House (medieval)(possible)East Colzium stands in West Lothian as a nineteenth-century farmhouse built upon the possible remains of a medieval…
- Couston CastleCastle (17th Century), Unidentified Pottery (medieval)Couston Castle stands in West Lothian as a seventeenth-century structure marked by medieval pottery, though the exact…
- Carribber CastleCastle (medieval)Rob Gibb built Carribber Castle in the sixteenth century as a tower house near Linlithgow, complete with courtyards and…
- Bedlormie HouseLairds House (17th Century), Tower House (medieval)Bedlormie House stands in West Lothian as a medieval tower later shaped into a 17th-century lairds residence. Its walls…
- Bathgate CastleCastle (medieval), Earthwork (medieval)Bathgate Castle stands in West Lothian as a medieval castle and earthwork, its boundaries still marked though much of…
- Baads CastleCastle (medieval)Baads Castle was a medieval castle in West Lothian, Scotland, probably dating from 1558, originally owned by James…
- Abercorn CastleCastle (medieval), Mound (period Unassigned), Obelisk (period Unassigned)Abercorn Castle was a 12th-century stronghold held by the Douglas family from 1400 until King James II destroyed it in…