Where is Cranshaws Castle?

Cranshaws Castle is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.8485°, -2.5098°.

Castles · North East England

Cranshaws Castle

Cranshaws Castle in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h

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

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Cranshaws Castle or Cranshaws Tower is a privately owned 15th-century pele situated by the village of Cranshaws in Berwickshire, Scotland. The building is still in use as a residence, and is protected as a category A listed building.

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History

The lands of Cranshaws were originally part of the Barony of Bothwell, which barony was created for David Olifard (ancestor of the current chief of the Oliphants) by King Malcolm IV in the mid 12th century. Occupancy (typically, this would have been a feu - the superiority remaining with the Barony of Bothwell) was then granted to a younger Olifard son, with whose line the estate remained for some centuries. In 1329, the senior representative of the younger line but now 7th chief, William Oliphant, Lord of Aberdalgie, died and amongst the properties which he left was Cranshaws, which he had inherited from his Olifard forebears. In 1362 Joanna de Moravia, heiress of Bothwell, married…

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