What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Fordyce Castle as Tower House (medieval). 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.
Fordyce Castle, a medieval tower house in Aberdeenshire, was built in the 15th or 16th century by the Fordyce family, a prominent local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of Scottish tower house architecture and for its historical association with the region's feudal past.
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Places near here
Fordyce, Church Street, Post Office StoreStorehouse (period Unassigned) · 25 yd
Fordyce, Church Street, North ViewCottage (mid 19th Century) · 68 yd
Fordyce, Church Street, Water Stand PumpWater Pump (19th Century) · 82 yd
Fordyce, Bridge Street, Bridge CottageCottage (period Unassigned) · 90 yd
Fordyce, Fordyce CemeteryCemetery (20th Century), War Memorial (20th Century) · 385 yd
Fordyce War MemorialMemorial · 385 yd
Cotton HillForest · 1.7 mi
Findlater Castle ViewpointViewpoint · 2.2 mi
InaltryCastle (medieval) · 2.4 mi
Artemis: Sunnyside Beach, North SeaTrawler (20th Century) · 2.5 mi
Donnie PointHeadland · 2.6 mi
Portsoy Salmon BothyMuseum · 2.7 miOther information
Photo: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0