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Garrion Tower

Tower House (17th Century)

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Garrion Tower stands in North Lanarkshire as a seventeenth-century tower house, its exact position known to the nearest metre. Whether it guarded a road, stored grain or hid a family from raiders, the stone still suggests a life of alarms and quick decisions. The tower does not need a legend to be strange; it is a building that survived the age when survival was not guaranteed.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Garrion Tower as Tower House (17th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Garrion Tower is a 17th-century tower house located in Scotland, built as a defensive and residential structure during a period of political instability. Its precise location and specific builder are not recorded, but it remains an example of Scottish domestic architecture from that era.

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