What is recorded here

Hoddan Castle: Southerness, Solway Firth is a 19th Century sloop in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Its point appears on the official map within a kilometre, but the name and label do not confirm that the place still exists or that the public may enter it. A narrow Solway tide may have carried it past Southerness, where it beached, broke or vanished into the local memory.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hoddan Castle: Southerness, Solway Firth as Sloop (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Hoddan Castle, located at Southerness on the Solway Firth, was built in the 19th century as a sloop, a type of defensive coastal structure. It is remembered for its historical role in the maritime and military history of the Solway region, reflecting 19th-century efforts to protect Scotland's western frontier.

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