Borthwick Castle, Scottish Borders was a 16th-century L-plan tower house, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north west of Duns, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The property...
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Borthwick Castle is one of the largest and best-preserved surviving medieval Scottish fortifications. It is located twelve miles (19 km) south-east of...
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Clan Borthwick is a Scottish clan. The name Borthwick is of territorial origin. It is a traditional origin that the progenitor of Clan Borthwick was Andreas...
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Borthwick was casting bronze guns at Edinburgh. By 1511 Edinburgh was the principal foundry in Scotland, supplanting Stirling Castle, with Scottish and...
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Cavers is a parish in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former county of Roxburghshire, south and east of Hawick. The largest village in the...
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a list of castles in the Scottish Borders. Castles in Scotland List of castles in Scotland List of listed buildings in the Scottish Borders Hawick, Detached...
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Scotland, and are open to the public. A mile to the south-west is Borthwick Castle, a 15th-century tower house that is still in use. In the late 14th...
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Blackadder House (redirect from Blackadder castle)
p. 307. Hall 1994, p. 69. Cowan, Ian Borthwick (1967). The parishes of medieval Scotland. Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society. Dunse History Society....
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consulted with Robert Borthwick and John Drummond about the cannon and equipment required. James V borrowed the guns from Dunbar Castle which was held by...
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Midlothian (redirect from Midlothian, Scotland)
lies in the east-central Lowlands, bordering the City of Edinburgh council area, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders. Midlothian emerged as a county in...
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This is an incomplete index of leading Scottish noble family seats. Scottish clan List of family seats of English nobility List of family seats of Irish...
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Scottish Borders compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for places in other counties. This list of places in the Scottish Borders...
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he was appointed commissioner for redress of outrages on the Anglo-Scottish Border. On 6 February 1532 he was made Justice of the Peace for the East Riding...
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Branxholme (category Villages in the Scottish Borders)
Nearby are Ale Water, Alemoor Loch, Burnfoot, Borthwick Water, Colterscleugh Monument, Roberton, Stobs Castle, Teviothead and Wilton The novelist Sir Walter...
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Clan Armstrong (category Scottish clans)
Clan Armstrong is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Borders. According to the legend and tradition, the first of the name Armstrong was Siward Beorn (sword...
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body was buried in Scotland. Two castles in the Borders are claimed as his resting place. The legend ran that, before the Scottish charge at Flodden,...
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by the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran. However, over 18 months the Scottish besieging forces made little impact, and the Castle finally surrendered...
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August – Temperatures at Greycrook in the Scottish Borders reach 32.9 °C, the highest recorded in Scotland until 2022. 25 August – Glasgow Zoo closes...
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storms and captures Berwick-upon-Tweed, sacking what is at this time a Scottish border town, with much bloodshed. He slaughters most of the residents, including...
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created by the Scottish Government to promote Scotland. The country has eight Scottish Government international offices, and over thirty Scottish Development...
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Battle of Flodden (category History of the Scottish Borders)
Edinburgh, the Scottish host moved to Ellemford, to the north of Duns, Scottish Borders, and camped to wait for Angus and Home. The Scottish army, numbering...
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Earl of Deloraine (category Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland)
places in the Scottish Borders: Deloraine is where the Deloraine Burn joins the Ettrick Water, between Ettrick and Ettrickbridge; Hermitage Castle is north...
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Crown his inheritor. With the outbreak of the Anglo-Scottish Wars, Edward II invested in castles, including Warkworth, where he funded the strengthening...
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Patrick Hepburn, 1st Lord Hailes (category Scottish knights)
by his spouse Janet (her 1st marriage), daughter of William Borthwick, 1st of Borthwick (d. 1414) of that Ilk. On 29 June 1444, he had a charter from...
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reform' and the Scottish universities. in MacDonald, Alasdair A.; Lynch, Michael; Cowan, Ian Borthwick, eds. (1994). The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in...
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River Teviot (category Rivers of the Scottish Borders)
River Teviot (/ˈtiːviət/; Scottish Gaelic: Abhainn Tìbhiot), or Teviot Water, is a river of the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, and is the largest tributary...
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Government Legislation Website and the Scottish Parliament all refer to the noble title of a Scottish baron. A Scottish barony is the only UK title of nobility...
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Treaty of Durham (1139) (category 1139 in Scotland)
Alan; Research, Borthwick Institute of Historical (1978). William Cumin: Border politics and the Bishopric of Durham, 1141-1144. Borthwick Publications....
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the Scottish Nation, (Edinburgh, 1872), p. 200ff; Donaldson, The Sources of Scottish History, p. 34: "... at what point its information about Scotland should...
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Capture of Roxburgh (1460) (category 1460 in Scotland)
Anglo-Scottish Wars. Following the Second War of Scottish Independence intermittent conflict continued along the Anglo-Scottish border with Roxburgh Castle...
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