Newark Castle (Selkirk)
| Newark Castle | ||
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 Newark Tower ruin |
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| Alternative name (s): | Newark Tower | |
| Creation time : | 15th century | |
| Castle type : | Niederungsburg (Tower House) | |
| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Scottish nobility | |
| Construction: | Quarry stone | |
| Place: | Selkirk | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 33 '17.2 " N , 2 ° 55' 11.2" W | |
| Height: | 168 m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference | |
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Newark Castle or Newark Tower is the ruin of a large tower house about 5 km west of Selkirk in the Scottish county of Selkirkshire (now part of the Scottish Borders administrative division ). The building on the property of Bowhill House in the valley of Yarrow Water , of which, in addition to the donjon , parts of the gatehouse and curtain wall have survived to this day, is a Scheduled Monument .
history
The Newark Tower was loaned to Archibald Douglas, Earl of Wigton around 1423 . At that time, the Tower House was not finished and work continued until 1475. A fence was added around 1550, the battlements and two caphouses with a square floor plan that can be seen today date from around 1600.
After the fall of the Black Douglases , the castle was in the hands of the crown and in 1473 Margaret of Denmark , wife of King James III. , the estate. The royal coat of arms can be seen on the west pediment. The English army besieged Newark Castle in 1547 to no avail, but it was burned down the following year. In 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and after the Battle of Philiphaugh , 100 royalist followers of the Marquess of Montrose were shot in the enclosure of Newark Castle.
At the end of the 17th century, Newark Castle was rebuilt for Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch . Sir Walter Scott and William and Dorothy Wordsworth visited it in 1831.
Ghosts
The Tower House is said to be haunted by the souls of the women and children who were murdered by brutal soldiers at this point. Every year, on September 13th, they should be heard howling.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ Borders - Paranormal Database Record . Paranormal Database. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
swell
- Martin Coventry: Towers in Scotland . Goblinshead, Musselburgh 2005. ISBN 1-899874-24-0 . P. 88.
- Mike Salter: Discovering Scottish Towers . 1985. ISBN 0-85263-749-7 . Pp. 12-13.
