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Borders Castles
While Ayton Castle is certainly one of the Scottish Borders most impressive and highly regarded historic buildings, it might have been an entirely different architectural endeavour if its architect, James Gillespie Graham, didn’t have the wealth of older local castles to inspire him to create something worthy of the area’s prestigious collection.

Travel a few miles south and cross the border you come across some of the best castles in England, and there are a few which stand out above the rest. Bamburgh Castle is undoubtedly one of the...

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Scottish Castles
Over the centuries the Scottish Borders have been an area of much political unrest and have seen their fair share of bloodshed.

Time and a sense of heritage tends to lift the harsh reality of what was terrible at the moment to something almost mystical, imbued with relish and imaginings of brave rebels and wild revels...

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