What is recorded here

Pollok Castle Estate in East Renfrewshire may hide a medieval moat, though no surviving structure confirms the claim. Water may have cut a defensive ring around a hall, while people walked its bank or watched birds drink from it. The estate still belongs to memory and mystery rather than display.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Pollok Castle Estate as Moat (medieval)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Pollok Castle Estate was held by the Maxwell family from the 13th century, becoming prominent in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is important as the ancestral seat of the Maxwells, a powerful Scottish noble family, and for its historical and architectural significance in the Glasgow area.

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