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Picture by kind permission of Andrew Spratt. Note Douglas banner in lower
left corner.
The Earls of Douglas held the property from 1400, and
James the Gross, seventh earl, died
here in 1443. The castle was destroyed, after a month long siege, by James II
in 1455, during his campaign against the Black Douglases, and many of the
garrison were hanged. The lands passed to the Setons and then to the
Hamiltons.
"A village and a coast parish of Linlithgowshire. Lying 1/4
miles inland, near the confluence of the Cornie and Midhope Burns, the village
- a pretty little place, nestling among trees and gardens on the verge of a
high bank - is 3 3/4 miles W of its post-town South
Queensferry, and 3 NNW of Winchburgh station.
The parish contains also the hamlets of Philipstoun, 2 1/2
miles SW of Abercorn village, and Society, on the coast, 1 1/4 miles
E by N. It is bounded N for 3 3/4 miles by the Firth of
Forth (here 2 1/2 miles wide), E by Dalmeny, SE by
Kirkliston, S by the Auldcathie portion of Dalmeny and by Ecclesmachen, SW by
Linlithgow, and W by Carriden, from which it is parted by the Black
Burn."
(Extract from Groomes Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland c.1895)
Location: NT 083794
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