Blackcastle Rings

#6590 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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The Blackcastle Rings are earthworks and a promontory fort in the Parish of Greenlaw, above the left bank of the Blackadder Water, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. ()

Coordinates: 55°43'24"N, 2°29'21"W

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Blackcastle Rings – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hume Castle, Mellerstain House, Greenknowe Tower, Duns Castle.

4.1 miS
Forts and castles
Hume Castle, Greenlaw
104 min walk • Hume Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th- or early 13th-century castle of enceinte held by the powerful Hume or Home family, Wardens of the Eastern March who became successively the Lords Home and the Earls of Home.
6.1 miSW
Historical place, Garden, Park
Mellerstain House, Kelso
157 min walk • Mellerstain House is a stately home around 8 miles north of Kelso in the Borders, Scotland. It is currently the home of the 14th Earl of Haddington, and is a historical monument of Scotland.
4.5 miSW
Forts and castles
Greenknowe Tower
116 min walk • Greenknowe Tower is a 16th-century tower house, located just west of the village of Gordon, in the Scottish Borders. Although a roofless ruin, the stonework of the tower is well preserved, and represents a fine example of a later tower house, built more as a residence rather than as a place of defence.
6.6 miNE
Nature and wildlife, Park, Reportedly haunted
Duns Castle, Duns
169 min walk • Duns Castle, Duns, Berwickshire is a historic house in Scotland, the oldest part of which, the massive Norman Keep or Pele Tower, supposedly dates from 1320.
4.1 miW
Church
Bassendean
105 min walk • Bassendean is a village in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, 4 kilometres south of Westruther and 3 kilometres north-west of Gordon. It is by the Eden Water in the former Berwickshire, immediately south of the hamlet of Houndslow.
4.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Dirrington Great Law
113 min walk • Dirrington Great Law is a hill in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former county of Berwickshire. The summit is around 2.5 kilometres south of Longformacus and 9 kilometres west of Duns.
4.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Protected area
Gordon Moss
126 min walk • Gordon Moss is a nature reserve near Gordon, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Berwickshire. The moss is situated one mile west of Gordon village, south of the Gordon - Earlston road. Parking places.
5.1 miNE
Forts and castles
Langton Castle
131 min walk • Langton Castle is a now destroyed medieval fortress at Langton, near the burgh of Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland. Little remains of the structure.
3.6 miE
Church
Polwarth Parish Church
93 min walk • Polwarth Parish Church was a member church of the Church of Scotland before closing in 2004. It is situated atop a mound off a minor road leading from the A6105, Greenlaw to Duns road in the old county of Berwickshire, now privately owned by the Letts family who live in the adjacent Polwarth Manse and is available for weddings.
5.4 miSE
Memorial
Crosshall cross
138 min walk • The Crosshall Cross is a cross at Crosshall Farm, Eccles, in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in historic Berwickshire. The cross is situated near Crosshall farmhouse and is said to date from the 12th century, after the Second Crusade.
5.6 miE
Tower
Bite-about Pele
144 min walk • Bite-about is a very ruined pele tower or bastle house. It is situated in the parish of Eccles, between the villages of Fogo and Swinton to the south of Duns, Berwickshire, Scotland.