Tour Scotland Travel Video Autumn Crichton Castle Midlothian

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of Crichton Castle on ancestry visit to Midlothian, Scotland. Constructed as a tower house in the late 14th century, and it was expanded as power of the Crichton family grew. However, the Crichtons fell from favour in the later 15th century, and the castle passed to the Earls of Bothwell. Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell, constructed the Italianate north range in the 1580s, featuring an elaborate diamond patterned facade. After Bothwell was accused of witchcraft the castle fell into neglect.

That castle rises on the steep
Of the green vale of Tyne:
And far beneath, where slow they creep,
From pool to eddy, dark and deep,
Where alders moist and willows weep,
You hear her streams repine.
The towers in different ages rose;
Their various architecture shows
The builders' various hands;
A mighty mass that could oppose,
When deadliest hatred fired its foes,
The vengeful Douglas bands.
From " Marmion " by Sir Walter Scott

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