Edrington Castle

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Edrington Castle is an Outbound hilltop castle in the Scottish county of Berwickshire (now part of the administrative Scottish Borders ), about 8 km west of the English town of Berwick-upon-Tweed . Since the 14th century at the latest, there has been a castle on the steep hill above Edrington Mill , a mill on the Whiteadder Water river . Even if nothing of it has survived above ground, the ruin is still shown on the current map of the Ordnance Survey .

history

Tytler notes that in the border crisis of 1481, the border barons and those whose estates were by the sea were ordered to put their various castles in defensive positions. This also included Edrington Castle. In July 1482, Richard, Duke of Gloucester , who later became King Richard III of England, took over . , with his army, the castle and burned it down. A little later it was rebuilt and fortified on the orders (and probably also at the expense) of the Scottish Parliament.

Robert Pitcairn noted on April 7, 1529, “Forgiveness for Richard Lauder of The Bass and eleven others for the conspiratorial appointment, re-enclosure, and assistance of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (who had been declared an outlaw), George Douglas , his Brother, and Archibald , their uncle, ”whom Lauder had given refuge at Edrington Castle. The Douglases later went into exile across the border to England.

Around 1546 Edrington Castle was taken again by the English and in the same year the Scots demanded that their "house in Edrington" should be returned to them immediately. According to the contract signed in the Church of Norham , King Edward VI. with his men.

Edrington Castle, it appears, was later replaced as a residence by the Peel Tower in Nether Mordington , now Edrington House , presumably when it was rebuilt in 1750. The Mordington Ward noted of Edrington Castle that "on the eighteenth century the tower and battlements were largely intact," and Gauld notes that "on the eighteenth century Edrington Castle was still four stories high, a dominant ruin perched on the top of a cliff surrounded by trees. The castle was inaccessible from the west and was prepared to withstand the onslaught of an invasion from the English banks of the Tweed . " James Logan Mack also said:" After the Union [1707, between England and Scotland] it fell into disrepair ". The Statistical Accout of Scotland mentions: "Edrington Castle, ruins, needs our attention".

Cawderstanes 1990

A hundred years later, the Ordnance Gazetteer still referred to Edrington Castle as a "ruined fortress." However, the Castellated & Domestic Architecture of Scotland writes from the 12th to the 18th Century that it was "the sheer fragment of an old castle, a place of some importance in the border wars". In 1892, the year the above publication was published, Mr. Edward Gray , the new owner of the Edrington estate, had a new country house built near the old castle called Cawderstanes . Farmhouses enclosed the castle ruins and even integrated parts of it. It is almost certain that the construction workers who built the country house used building blocks from the castle ruins.

In 1909 Maxwell wrote : “Edrington Castle, across from Paxton , once a place of great strength and importance, has been stripped to the ground.” The Sixth Report & Inventory of Monuments & Constructions in the County of Berwick states: “This castle is situated about 3½ miles west of Berwick on a rocky bank above Whiteadder Water. A sheer fragment is left, adjacent and integrated into farmhouses. ” Gauld laments that the castle“ suffered more from the attention of local vandals than from the English ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patrick Fraser Tytler: The History of Scotland . Edinburgh 1866. Volume IV: p. 226. Volume V: p. 204.
  2. ↑ Timothy Pont: Map of Mercia in Blaeu's Atlas .
  3. ↑ a b H. Drummond Gauld: Brave Borderland . London 1934.
  4. ↑ James Logan Mack: The Border Line . Edinburgh 1924.
  5. ^ Statistical Account of Scotland . Volume 15. Around 1795.
  6. ^ Ordnance Gazetteer . Edinburgh 1885.
  7. ^ The Castellated & Domestic Architecture of Scotland from the 12th to the 18th Century . Volume IV. Edinburgh, 1892.
  8. ^ Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bt .: The Story of the Tweed . London 1909.
  9. ^ The Sixth Report & Inventory of Monuments & Constructions in the County of Berwick . Her Majesty's Stationary Office, Edinburgh 1915.

swell

  • Alexander Wisbet: Systems of Heraldry . Edinburgh, 1722.
  • The Register of The Privy Council of Scotland . Volume III. Edinburgh 1880. pp. 118-119.
  • Lachlan Shaw: History of the Province of Moray . 3 volumes. Glasgow 1882.
  • John J. Reid BA: Early Notices of the Bass Rock and its Owners in The Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . Edinburgh, December 1885.
  • George Burnett, LL.D., Lord Lyon King of Arms (Editor): The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland 1480–1487 . Edinburgh 1886. Volume IX. P. 63/4. 81, 145, 157.
  • Joseph Bain: Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland . Edinburgh 1888. Volume 4. No. 1445. p. 294.
  • John Scott: Berwick-upon-Tweed, The History of the Town and Guild . London 1888.
  • AEJG Mackay, MA, LL.D. (Editor): The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland 1513–1522 . Edinburgh 1893. Volume XIV. Pp. 619-620.
  • J. Stewart-Smith: The Grange of St. Giles . Edinburgh 1898.
  • Donald Crawford (Editor): Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, 1665-1676 . Donald Crawford. Edinburgh 1900. p. 202.
  • A. Thomson: Coldingham Parish & Priory . Galashiels 1908.
  • Grodon Donaldson (Editor): Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland 1567 - 1574 . D. Litt. Volume vi. No. 355. Edinburgh 1963. p. 76.
  • Professor ELG Stones (Editor): Anglo-Scottish Relations, 1174-1328 . No. 172. Oxford 1965. p. 345.
  • WR Johnson: The Parish of Mordington . Berwick-upon-Tweed 1966.
  • Reverend Walter M. Ferrier: The North Berwick Story . North Berwick, 1980.
  • The Borders Family History Society Magazine . Issue No. 41 October 1999.

Web links

  • Edrington Mains . In: Canmore . Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Retrieved July 4, 2017.
  • Mordington . In: GENUKI . Retrieved July 4, 2017.

Coordinates: 55 ° 46 '26 "  N , 2 ° 5' 43"  W.