Capt Lightning
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- Historic Buchan, Scotland
Just back from visiting a couple of Scottish castles. They are only a few miles apart and both started off in the turbulent days of the Jacobite rebellions.
1. Crathes Castle. Ancestral home of the Burnett family. Built on land granted by Robert the Bruce in 1323, construction of the castle started in 1553 to replace an earlier wooden structure. The current castle boasts a number of painted ceilings, and has a resident ghost ("The green lady"). Many people including Queen Victoria claim to have seen her.
Picture taken from the croquet lawn shows the topiary yew trees planted in 1702.
2. Drum castle. Ancestral home of the Chief of the Irvine clan. The castle boasts the oldest (13th century) intact tower in Scotland . Like Crathes castle, the lands on which Drum castle stands, were granted by Robert the Bruce in 1325. The castle has undergone several extensions and alterations from the 14th till the Victorian era.
1. Crathes Castle. Ancestral home of the Burnett family. Built on land granted by Robert the Bruce in 1323, construction of the castle started in 1553 to replace an earlier wooden structure. The current castle boasts a number of painted ceilings, and has a resident ghost ("The green lady"). Many people including Queen Victoria claim to have seen her.
Picture taken from the croquet lawn shows the topiary yew trees planted in 1702.
2. Drum castle. Ancestral home of the Chief of the Irvine clan. The castle boasts the oldest (13th century) intact tower in Scotland . Like Crathes castle, the lands on which Drum castle stands, were granted by Robert the Bruce in 1325. The castle has undergone several extensions and alterations from the 14th till the Victorian era.
