What is recorded here

Maggie Keswick died in 1995, leaving Charles Jencks to keep shaping the garden alone. He continued adding features until his own death in 2019, treating the land as an unfinished instrument rather than a finished picture. The garden stopped being about two people and became a record of what one person could sustain after loss.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Portrack Castle as Castle (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.

Portrack Castle was built in the 14th century by the Pringle family, a prominent Scottish border clan. It is remembered as a strategic stronghold in the historic region of Lauderdale, reflecting the turbulent history of the Scottish Borders during the medieval period.

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