What is recorded here

Wemyss Castle is a living Fife stronghold where a 13th-century corner tower still stands beside chambers that echoed with Mary, Queen of Scots, Charles II and generations of Wemyss blood. It has been sacked, restored, used as a wartime hospital and stripped of Victorian additions, yet the family still call it home. Green Jean may still walk its rooms, tall and slim in a swishing mantle, joining the human and forgotten lives preserved inside its walls.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Wemyss Castle as Cutter (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Wemyss Castle, located in Fife, Scotland, was originally built in the late 13th century by the Wemyss family, a prominent Scottish noble family. It is historically significant as a well-preserved example of a medieval tower house and as the ancestral seat of the Earls of Wemyss, playing a role in Scottish history and architecture.

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