What is recorded here

Mangerton Tower is a ruined medieval tower house in the Scottish Borders that belonged to the Armstrong family. Ralph Eure burnt it in 1543, Regent Moray blew it up with gunpowder in 1569, and Lord Scrope laid it waste again in 1601. Only part of the ground floor remains beside the Liddel Water, marked by a stone panel bearing a coat of arms and the date 1563 or 1583.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Mangerton Tower as Tower House (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.

Mangerton Tower is a medieval tower house located in Scotland, likely built during the late 15th or early 16th century by a local landholding family. It is remembered as an example of the defensive and domestic architecture of the Scottish Lowlands during the medieval period.

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