
What is recorded here
Mortons and their guests may have eaten well because a walled garden stood beside Erchless Castle. The wall would have blocked Highland wind and helped keep food alive through long winters. Whether the garden still holds buried beds or has vanished under grass, it once served the castle and its people.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Erchless Castle, Walled Garden as Walled Garden (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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Places near here
Erchless Castle, Stable and SteadingFarmstead (period Unassigned), Stable (period Unassigned) · 98 yd
Erchless CastleTower House (medieval) · 166 yd
Struy BridgeBarn (20th Century), Church (mid 19th Century) - (early 20th Century) (1839) · 486 yd
Coille Nan UaigheanEnclosure (period Unassigned) · 1244 yd
StruySilo (20th Century) · 1476 yd
Chisholm StoneMemorial · 1483 yd
Beinn a' Bhàthaich ÀrdMountain / peak · 3.4 mi
Sgurr a' PhollainMountain / peak · 3.5 mi
Ruttle WoodForest · 4.8 mi
Prince Charlie's Cave, Glen StrathfarrarCave (period Unassigned) · 5.1 mi
Kilmorack, West Parish Church, GraveyardCemetery (20th Century) · 5.7 miOther information
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