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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Lochwood Tower, a ruined baronial fortalice in Johnstone parish, Dumfriesshire, 6½ miles S of Moffat. Standing upon a rising-ground amid a flat expanse that formerly was forest and morass, it was the seat, from the 14th century, of the Johnstones, who received the titles of Lord Johnstone of Lochwood (1633), Earl of Hartfell (1643), Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (1661), and Marquis of Annandale (1701). It was burned by the Maxwells in 1593, but restored and again inhabited, till in 1724 it was finally abandoned. Of great strength, seemingly at once in structure and from situation, it now is represented by only one angle, with two vaulted rooms, and an outspread mass of rubbish. The ruins are embosomed in grand old trees, the finest of which, with their girth in feet at 5 feet from the ground, are two oaks (20 and 185/6), a sycamore (131/3), and an ash (17).—Ord. Sur., sh. 10, 1864.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a ruined baronial fortalice" (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites") |
| Administrative units: | Johnstone ScoP Dumfries Shire ScoCnty |
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