What is recorded here

Hoddom Castle, Mains Farm is a post Medieval farmhouse and farmstead in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, still holding its function in stone rather than legend. It may have fed people, sheltered horses, and given birth to children whose names vanished before the castle name stuck. The castle label sounds grand, but the honest shape is a working farm that outlived the hands which built it.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Hoddom Castle, Mains Farm as Farmhouse (post Medieval), Farmstead (post Medieval), Stable(s) (post Medieval). 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.

Hoddom Castle, Mains Farm, is a post-Medieval farmhouse and farmstead located in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is remembered for its historical association with the region's agricultural development and as part of the historic Hoddom estate, which was held by the Maxwell family in the medieval period.

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