Where is Couston Castle?

Couston Castle is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.0514°, -3.3369°.

Castles · Scottish Highlands

Couston Castle

Couston Castle in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

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Plan your visit

Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h

Couston Castle is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Couston Castle is an L-plan tower house dating from the late sixteenth or early seventeenth centuries, just north east of Dalgety Bay, at the edge of Otterston Loch in Fife, Scotland. It is built on the site of an earlier building.

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Background

History

Couston Castle was built on lands granted to Robert de London, an illegitimate son of King William the Lion (1143–1214) in 1199. The land was granted in turn to Roger Frebern. The castle was firstly the property of the Logans of Restalrig, but passed later to the Earls of Moray. By the sixteenth century there was a fortified castle protected by artillery. King James V confirmed a charter to James Logan of Couston, whose family were resident at that period, during which the castle was remodelled to the form that it generally now has. For part of the second half of the seventeenth century it was occupied by Robert Blair, a Presbyterian clergyman, who was a former tutor of King Charles I, and…

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