Clan Maxwell Castle River Clyde Port Glasgow Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of Newark Castle, a well preserved Scottish castle sited on the south shore of the estuary of the River Clyde on ancestry visit to Port Glasgow, Inverclyde. The castle was built in 1478 by George Maxwell when he inherited the Barony of Finlanstone, or Finlaystone, in the parish of Kilmacolm. In the late 16th century the castle was inherited by Sir Patrick Maxwell, a powerful friend of king James VI of Scotland and who was notorious for murdering two members of a rival family and beating his wife who left him after having 16 children.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

View the most recent Tour Scotland photographs.