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Amisfield
Tower was built around 1600 in Dumphriesshire in the
south of Scotland. It was built by the Charteris family,
a Norman family who arrived in Scotland with William the
Conqueror. The family was granted the lands by the king
of Scotland in 1166. This tower displays the Scottish
Baronial style of castle building at its finest, with a
plethora of corbelled gables, turrets, dormers and cap-houses
piled atop a plain, almost square tower to a height of 70
feet! This castle is privately owned and not open to the
public. The Charteris family sold the castle in 1904, but
the 20th and 21st generations of the family still reside
in the village of Amisfield. To the right is a picture of
the castle from a different angle taken by me during our
trip to Scotland in August 2000. The castle is on narrow
backroads and would have been very difficult to find
without the help of a schoolboy on his way home!
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