What is recorded here

Harelaw Tower stands in Dumfries and Galloway as a medieval tower house, its stones marked by centuries rather than a single dramatic event. The structure still belongs to the landscape, waiting for someone to imagine the lives held inside its narrow rooms. It does not need a famous battle or a named king to matter because ordinary people built, defended and lived there long before records preserved their names.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Harelaw Tower as Tower House (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.

Harelaw Tower is a 16th-century tower house built by the Hume family of Harelaw in East Lothian, Scotland. It is remembered as a well-preserved example of a Scottish Renaissance tower house and as the birthplace of John Home, the 18th-century Scottish poet and dramatist.

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