Hume Castle, Greenlaw

Name: Hume Castle
Address: Hume Castle, Greenlaw, TD5 7TR, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1573 410743

#1 among attractions in Greenlaw

Top attraction, Forts and castles

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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. The village of Hume is located between Greenlaw and Kelso, two miles north of the village of Stichill, in Berwickshire, Scotland. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, recorded as such by Historic Environment Scotland. ()

Alternative names: Built: XIII centuryDemolished: 1650Coordinates: 55°39'54"N, 2°28'15"W

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Hume CastleGreenlaw TD5 7TR United Kingdom

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+44 1573 410743

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Day trips

Hume Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Smailholm Tower, Floors Castle, Kelso Abbey, Mellerstain House.

5.8 miSW
15th-century hilltop stone tower
Smailholm Tower, Kelso
149 min walk • Smailholm Tower is a peel tower at Smailholm, around five miles west of Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Its dramatic situation, atop a crag of Lady Hill, commands wide views over the surrounding countryside.
4.2 miS
Forts and castles, Historical place, Gothic Revival architecture
Floors Castle, Kelso
107 min walk • Floors Castle, in Roxburghshire, south-east Scotland, is the seat of the Duke of Roxburghe. Despite its name it is an estate house rather than a fortress. It was built in the 1720s by the architect William Adam for Duke John, possibly incorporating an earlier tower house.
4.8 miS
Architecture, Ruins, Monastery
Kelso Abbey, Kelso
123 min walk • Kelso Abbey is a ruined Scottish abbey in Kelso, Scotland. It was founded in the 12th century by a community of Tironensian monks first brought to Scotland in the reign of Alexander I.
3.8 miSW
Historical place, Garden, Park
Mellerstain House, Kelso
98 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.
5 miS
Bridge
Kelso Bridge, Kelso
129 min walk • The Kelso Bridge or Rennie's Bridge is a bridge across the River Tweed at Kelso, in the Scottish Borders.
4.1 miW
Forts and castles
Greenknowe Tower
106 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.
4.8 miS
Forts and castles, Ruins, Historical place
Roxburgh Castle, Kelso
122 min walk • Roxburgh Castle is a ruined royal castle that overlooks the junction of the rivers Tweed and Teviot, in the Borders region of Scotland.
3.3 miSE
Church
Ednam
85 min walk • Ednam Church is a member church of the Church of Scotland and is co–joined with Kelso North Church in Kelso. Ednam is in the old county of Roxburghshire now part of the Scottish Borders Council.
4.9 miS
Monastery
Borders Abbeys Way, Kelso
126 min walk • The Borders Abbeys Way is a long-distance footpath in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is a circular walkway and is 109 kilometres in length.
5.3 miNW
Church
Bassendean
136 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.
6.3 miSW
Archaeological site
Brotherstone Hill
160 min walk • Brotherstone Hill is a hill near St. Boswells and the Eildon Hills in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, with two standing stones from the megalithic age, on the summit of Brotherstone Hill, at a height of 418 metres.