What is recorded here

Linlithgow Palace stands as ruined stone in West Lothian, having served Scottish monarchs through the 15th and 16th centuries before fire destroyed it in 1746. William Bynnie and his seven sons captured the earlier peel from under a hay wagon in 1313, turning a mundane delivery into a royal takeover. The empty halls still suggest grand feasts and dangerous politics, leaving behind a shell where human loudness has finally gone quiet.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Linlithgow Palace as No Class (event) (period Unassigned). 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.

Linlithgow Palace was built by the Stewart kings of Scotland, beginning as a castle in the 14th century and later expanded into a royal palace in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is important as the birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots, and as a symbol of royal power in central Scotland.

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