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Edzell Castle

Goblinshead

130 Inveresk Rd
Musselburgh
EH21 7AY
SCOTLAND

Edzell Castle consists of an early 16th-century tower house, later enlarged and extended with ranges of buildings around a courtyard, all now ruinous. A large pleasance, or garden, was created in 1604, and was surrounded by an ornamental wall, to which a summerhouse and a bathhouse were added. The fine carved decoration of the garden walls was unique. The castle was built by the Lindsay Earls of Crawford. Mary, Queen of Scots, stayed here in 1562, and Cromwell garrisoned it in 1651. The Lindsays had to sell the property in 1715, because of huge debts, and it was bought by the Maule Earl of Panmure. The Maules were forfeited for their part in the 1745 Jacobite Rising, and the castle was garrisoned by Hanoverian troops, who did much damage. The Maules recovered Edzell in 1764, but the castle was abandoned soon afterwards. It later passed to the Earl of Dalhousie, and was put into the care of the State in the 1930s. One story associated with the castle is that the one of the Lindsay lairds was cursed by a gypsy woman, after he had hanged her sons for poaching. The tales goes that his pregnant wife died that day, while he himself was devoured by wolves - as foretold. Exhibition. Garden. Reasonable disabled access and WC.

Directions:	Off B966, 6 miles N of Brechin, Angus.
Ownership:	HS	01356 648631	Ord. Survey Map Ref:	NO 585693 44
Open:	Daily all year except closed Thursday PM and Fridays October to March.
Key:	P S WC £	Click Here for explanation of Key and other abreviations

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