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Cramond Tower is a fifteenth-century defensive castle in Cramond, Edinburgh, with walls up to five feet thick and a round staircase protruding from the south-east corner. It belonged to a bishop, an Edinburgh merchant, and an amateur antiquarian before becoming a private residence, but a fire damaged it in 2011. The building has endured abandonment, romantic ruin paintings, concrete caps, restoration, and occupation, proving that even a small tower can absorb centuries of human ambition and forgetfulness.

Cramond Tower is shown as a castle on the public map of City of Edinburgh. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

Cramond Tower, located near Edinburgh, was built in the late 15th or early 16th century by the Cramond family, a prominent local landholding family. It is remembered as a historic defensive structure and an example of late medieval tower house architecture in Scotland.

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