Craignethan Castle
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Craignethan Castle is a ruined castle in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is located above the River Nethan, a tributary of the River Clyde, at NS816464. The castle is two miles west of the village of
View of the castle from the west
Craignethan Castle in 2018
Tillietudlem
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Tillietudlem is a fictional castle in Walter Scott's 1816 novel Old Mortality, and a modern settlement in South Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Craignethan Castle
…circumstances prevented him from making this area his summer residence. Scott's novel Old Mortality, published in 1816, was largely set in and around Tillietudlem Castle. Chapter XI describes the location: "All heads were now bent from the battlements of the turret, which commanded a distant prospect down the…
"Tillietudlem" sign where Southfield Road enters the village from the west
Craignethan Castle, on the edge of the ravine of the Craignethan Burn and Nethan Gorge.
Remains of Tilletudlum railway station platform
Village seen from field to its south, with Ashfield House to the left, and Fence Terrace to right of centre.