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Hailes Castle, East Linton

Goblinshead

130 Inveresk Rd
Musselburgh
EH21 7AY
SCOTLAND

In a lovely location above a river, Hailes Castle consists of a 14th-century keep, extended by ranges and towers in the 15th and 16th centuries, within a thick 13th-century curtain wall. The castle had a large courtyard, fragments of which remain. Hailes was a Hepburn property, having passed from the Cospatrick Earl of Dunbar and March, and the de Gourlay family. Archibald Dunbar captured the castle in 1443, and slew all he found within in the walls. Patrick Hepburn became Earl of Bothwell, but was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. The castle was burnt in 1532, and in 1547 was occupied by Lord Gray of Wilton for the English. James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, brought Mary, Queen of Scots, here after abducting her in 1567, and they married soon afterwards. In 1650 the castle was partly dismantled by Cromwell. It passed to the Stewarts, then the Setons, who in 1700 sold the castle to the Dalrymples of Hailes, but was then abandoned for the mansion of New Hailes, near Musselburgh. In 1835 Hailes was being used as a granary, but in 1926 was transferred into State care.

Directions:	Off A1, 1.5 miles W of East Linton, East Lothian.
Ownership:	HS	text	Ord. Survey Map Ref:	NT 575758 67
Open:	Open all year.
Key:	P Nearby	Click Here for explanation of Key and other abreviations

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