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Jan16
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Hailes Castle is a mainly 14th century residence almost a mile and a half south westward of East Linton, Eastward Lothian,Scotland. It was built on a stony deception overlooking the River Tyne to its northeastern, time to its southmost the land rises steadily to the ancient structure defense on the top of Traprain Law.
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Jan16
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Lauriston Castle is a 16th century form accommodation with 19th century extensions overlooking the Firth of Onward, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The chessman stands in thirty acres of tranquil grounds enjoying a magnificent panorama crossways the Firth of Forth. Lauriston Castle is situated in Davidson’s Mains, off Cramond Road Southbound. 4 miles north-west of Capital metropolis heart, on the A90. It was improved roughly 1590 for Sir Archibald Napier and lengthened in the 1820s. The Castle and the collections it contains are whatever of Scotland’s sterling gifts.
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Jan16
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Liberton Tower is a four-storey, square-plan pillar house in Edinburgh, Scotland. Set within half-acre deposit, Liberton Tower is a magnificent 15th-century manse, overlooking mulct views from its breastwork path. It was bought in 1857 by the Littles of Liberton. Twenty years later they improved Liberton Shelter, and since then the hulk was used mainly as a farm structure.
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Jan16
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Dunbar Castle is the remnants of one of the most right fortresses inScotland , situated over the refuge of the townspeople of Dunbar , in Eastbound Lothian. It was the front of the numerous castles formerly owned and occupied by the Earls of Dunbar. It was firstborn given to Gospatric I, inflammation of the House of Dunbar, by his cousin King Malcolm III and became the put of the Earldom of Dunbar. The chessman has seen numerous modifications and rebuilds over the centuries.
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Jan16
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Fyvie Castle is one of Scotland’s majuscule impressive fort palaces. Located north-west of Aberdeen, Scotland is the five-towered chessman of Fyvie. Fyvie dates back to the 13th century when it was a royal defence. The Hall has features cardinal towers and is a okay lesson of English Baronial architecture. Fyvie is now run by the Scottish General Trust but it retains the condition of a stemma internal.
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Jan16
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Tantallon Manse is a mid-14th-century fortress, set 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) eastern of Northwestward Berwick, in East Lothia,Scotland. Its activity on a cliff overlooks not only the sea but the Bass Rock, trine miles out to sea and travel to a dimension of 350 feet.
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Jan15
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Dundas Hall is a 15th century chessman, with considerable 19th century additions by William Burn, come South Queensferry, to the writer of Edinburgh,Scotland .
The Dundas Chessman was constructed during the earlyish life of the First World War, with a program inspired by mediaeval Denizen castles. Sodding with Gothic windows, turrets, towers, precipitous parapeted roofs, crumbling walls, and a grounds overgrown with shrubs and trees, the hall has been a landmark and a thing of stories both echt and romantic for most 100 years.
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Jan15
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To the region of North Berwick on a bouldered beam stands the surprisingly uninjured desolation of Fenton Tower. The mansion’s positioning was originally elite in the 11th Century because it afforded broad views in all directions and has had some important visitors, among them being King James VI of Scotland. The Tower has now been meticulously repaired, and opened in 2002 to offer 5-star improvement for up to 12 guests.
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Jan15
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Earl’s castle in Kirkwall is an awing antiquity, interred in ruins, which lies within the archipelago of federal Scots Orkney. The ruins of the Earl’s Palace, Kirkwall lie moral St Magnus Cathedral in the eye of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland . For the grouping of Orkney, the manse of the Earls in Kirkwall is wise a construction to what can be described as one of the darkest episodes in the account of Orkney - the state and the direction of the Earls Stewart, who left Scotland the chronicle of their sanguinary consumptive way.
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Jan15
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Set amongst the magnificent scenery of Royal Deeside, in the shadows of Lochnagar is the Balmoral Estate. It may see equivalent a fancy medieval mansion but Balmoral Castle in Balmoral Scotland was actually collective for Chessman Waterfall and completed in 1856.
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