What is recorded here
Castle Park is a post Medieval quarry in the Scottish Borders, marked on the official map with a point accurate to the nearest metre. The distinction between a park and a quarry is the whole story: a place named for pleasure but shaped for extraction. The Borders still keep that contradiction, beautiful and brutal at once.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Castle Park as Quarry (post Medieval). 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.
The historic-place record does not grant public access. Check current conditions and ownership before entering land or a building.
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