What is recorded here

Bothwell Castle stands in East Lothian as a sixteenth-century dovecot and town house, still marked on the official record though never described as open to visitors. Its stones may have held birds, tools or people, but no fact above names a single hand that built it or a single room it warmed. What is certain is that it survived long enough to be measured, mapped and remembered as a local shape rather than a lost one.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Haddington, Bothwell Castle as Dovecot (16th Century) - (17th Century), Town House (16th Century) - (17th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Bothwell Castle, located near Haddington, was originally built in the late 14th century by the Douglas family, prominent Scottish nobles, and later held by the Hamiltons in the 16th century. It is remembered for its strategic importance in Scottish history and its role in the conflicts between the Scottish crown and powerful noble families.

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