What is recorded here
Oxenfoord Castle, Junction at North Lodge, War Memorial stands in Midlothian as a twentieth-century war memorial, its exact position known to the nearest metre. The junction marks a boundary between roads and memory, where steel, stone or bronze may still hold the names of those lost. It belongs to the living town, not to forgotten history, and it asks only that people see it, remember it, and leave it unharmed.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Oxenfoord Castle, Junction at North Lodge, War Memorial as War Memorial (20th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Oxenfoord Castle was a 16th-century tower house built by the Preston family, later held by the Maitlands of Lethington, a prominent Scottish noble family. The castle is remembered for its historical association with the Maitland family and its strategic position in the Borders region.
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