What is recorded here

Niddry Castle is a sixteenth-century tower house near Winchburgh, West Lothian, built around 1500 by the Lord Seton. It stands between two large oil shale bings, a strange modern frame for a place where Mary, Queen of Scots wrote letters in 1568 and Captain Scougall dropped timber beams onto climbing attackers in 1572. The tower has a vaulted basement, an L-plan body and a later angle turret, while its rooms may have held weddings, Danish commissioners, frightened guests and the quiet work of people trying to keep a kingdom alive.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Niddry Castle as Hollow Way (period Unassigned). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Niddry Castle is a 16th-century tower house located in West Lothian, Scotland, and was originally built by the Cockburn family, a prominent local landowning family. It is remembered for its historical association with the Cockburns and its role in the regional history of central Scotland.

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