What is recorded here
Liberton Tower Mains farm is a castle, fort or tower in City of Edinburgh, Scotland. Perhaps stones still hold the shape of hands that built them. Maybe the tower watched fields before roads covered them. Imagine a room where breath still moves though no door opens.
A named place photographed at this map point in City of Edinburgh.
Liberton Tower, near Edinburgh, was built in the late 16th century by the Forman family, a prominent Edinburgh merchant and landowning family. It is remembered as a well-preserved example of a late medieval tower house and as part of the historical landscape of the Liberton area.
Places near here
Edinburgh, Liberton Brae, GeneralGeneral View (period Unassigned) · 157 yd
Edinburgh, Double Hedges Road, Liberton Fire StationFire Station (late 20th Century) · 378 yd
Edinburgh, Liberton BraeHuman Remains (period Unassigned), Coin(s) (period Unassigned) · 388 yd
Liberton RoadLade (period Unassigned) · 520 yd
Edinburgh, Liberton Brae, Liberton Cemetery ExtensionCemetery (20th Century) · 567 yd
Liberton TowerCastle · 612 yd
Edinburgh, Liberton Brae, Liberton Cemetery, War MemorialWar Memorial (20th Century) · 664 yd
Edinburgh, Liberton, Tower Or Castle of MalbetTower House (medieval)(possible) · 849 yd
Agassiz RockNamed rock · 1159 yd
Seven Acre ParkVisitor information · 1362 yd
Roof Terrace of the Observatory on Blackford HillMountain or hill · 1401 yd
Royal Observatory, EdinburghHeritage attraction · 1410 ydOther information
Photo: M J Richardson · CC BY-SA 2.0