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Glen House

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Scottish Borders castle country: The Glen, also called Glen House, stands in the Quair Water glen near Innerleithen. The estate appears in records from the 13th century, but the present house dates from the mid-19th century, when Charles Tennant commissioned David Bryce to build a bold Scottish Baronial residence. Tennant’s family turned the place into a fashionable Victorian home, complete with gardens, a temple, stables and a lion gate, while guests and shooting parties passed through its rooms.
Glen House is shown as a castle on the public map of Scottish Borders. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
Glen House was built in the 17th century by the Scott family, a prominent Border clan. It is remembered for its strategic position in the Scottish Borders, reflecting the region's turbulent history of feudal conflict and clan rivalry.

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