Old Photographs Crawford South Lanarkshire Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Crawford, a village and civil parish in South Lanarkshire. Crawford is located 50 miles southeast of Glasgow and 53 miles northwest of Carlisle, England. The village is close to an old Roman road and has links with Sir William Wallace. Archaeological excavations have shown that this was the site of a Roman fort between 80 AD and 140 AD housing perhaps 300 soldiers. Crawford is also said to be one of the most haunted villages in Scotland. A hotel is said to be haunted by three ghosts. One was said to be a young girl, who was accidentally killed by a coach in the Main Street and who was the daughter of a former innkeeper. Her apparition had allegedly been seen in the dining room, which had originally been the stables, it is said that she was responsible for the movement of chairs around the room and the ghostly sound of her singing to herself. Another alleged phantom was reportedly that of a coachman who wore a dark cloak and it was believed by the locals that he had died in 1805. A third ghostly sighting was that of a five year-old girl who was said to have been hanged for stealing bread. Ghostly Roman legionnaires are also said to have been seen marching up the Main Street of Crawford. Various reports described them as only being seen from the knees up as the level of the road in Roman times was much lower than it currently is today. Crawford Castle, substantially in ruins, is located on the north bank of the River Clyde, around half a mile north of Crawford. The ruins stand on an earlier motte and bailey earthwork. The castle was formerly known as Lindsay Tower, after its former owners, the Lindsay family. The strategic location of the castle guards the approach from England into the upper Clyde Valley. Crawford is a surname, and occasional given name, of English, Scottish and Northern Irish origin. In some cases it is a habitational name derived from several different places called Crawford, for example Crawford, South Lanarkshire, Scotland; Dorset, England; and Somerset, England). The placename is derived from the Old English elements crāwe, crow, and ford. In some cases the surname is a variant spelling of the English surname Crowfoot As a surname, Crawford is the 289th most common name in Great Britain. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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