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Location: Hermitage Castle
Town: Hawick
Information: An awesome, eerie ruin, set in a lonely spot, Hermitage Castle has a history filled with intrigue, murders, trysts, torture, and treason.
For most of its 400-year existence, Hermitage Castle was the key to controlling the Scottish Middle March. In The Steel Bonnets, George Macdonald Fraser’s fascinating book on the Border reivers, the author describes Hermitage as ‘the guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain’. Contemporaries called it ‘the strength of Liddesdale’ and as such it was fought over time and again. Even the building of the castle in the 13th century brought Scotland and England to the brink of war.
Photos: http://www.edinfilm.com/locations/Hermitage-Castle
Titles: Strange Tales of the Borders (Old and New) | The Candlemass Road | Hellish events at Hermitage Castle |
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009
Home | Location detail page
Location: Hermitage Castle
Town: Hawick
Information: An awesome, eerie ruin, set in a lonely spot, Hermitage Castle has a history filled with intrigue, murders, trysts, torture, and treason.
For most of its 400-year existence, Hermitage Castle was the key to controlling the Scottish Middle March. In The Steel Bonnets, George Macdonald Fraser’s fascinating book on the Border reivers, the author describes Hermitage as ‘the guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain’. Contemporaries called it ‘the strength of Liddesdale’ and as such it was fought over time and again. Even the building of the castle in the 13th century brought Scotland and England to the brink of war.
Photos: http://www.edinfilm.com/locations/Hermitage-Castle
Titles: Strange Tales of the Borders (Old and New) | The Candlemass Road | Hellish events at Hermitage Castle |
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009