Old travel Blog photograph of the Mary Of Guise door in Darnick Tower near Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Darnick Tower has been a property of the Heiton family from 1425 and they built the tower. King James V was sheltered here during the Battle of Melrose in 1526. Following the Battle of Ancrum Moor in 1545, the tower was attacked and partly destroyed by the retreating English army led by the Earl of Hertford. A new charter of the lands of Darnick was granted to Andrew Heiton, by Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley in 1566, and the tower was rebuilt in 1569. Sir Walter Scott greatly admired Darnick Tower and wished to purchase it, but he was refused.
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