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Glamis Castle, East Tower

Tower (14th Century) - (18th Century)
Glamis Castle, East Tower
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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Glamis Castle, East Tower as Tower (14th Century) - (18th Century). 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.
Glamis Castle, East Tower was built by the Douglas family in the 14th century and later held by the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the descendants of Sir David Lindsay, who married a daughter of William the Lion, King of Scotland. It is important as the ancestral seat of the Lindsay family and is historically linked to Shakespeare's Macbeth.

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Photo: Stanley Howe · CC BY-SA 2.0