The Castle Guide – a selection of castles from around the UK
There are now over 1100 Scottish castles in this guide, over 300 Welsh castles, all sorted alphabetically. Please use the search box below to select a castle name, country, a clan or family name, or a town to see what’s within a few miles. Just type in your search term, select what you are searching by, and away you go!
Blair Castle, the extended castle/palace of the Dukes of Atholl built around C13 tower of the Comyns. Open to the public.
- Closest To: Blair Atholl
- Access: Chargeable Public Access
- Grid Reference: NN866662
Blair Castle or House, occupied C15/16 tower of the Blairs extended C17 and since. Available to let and as venue
- Closest To: Dalry, Kilwinning
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NS305480
Blair Drummond Motte, a mutilated ditched motte on promontory site, abandoned by C14
- Closest To: Blair Drummond, Doune
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS724986
Blairfindy Castle, a ruined C16 tower house of the Gordons burned out 1746 and fenced off for safety reasons
- Closest To: Ballindalloch, Tomintoul
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: NJ198286
Blairlogie Castle, privately occupied C16 tower of the Spittals extended C16 and again C20
- Closest To: Blairlogie, Bridge of Allan, Menstrie
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NS828970
Blairquhan Castle, C19 mansion on site of earlier castle dating to C15 of the Kennedies and Whitefoords. Available for hire.
- Closest To: Straiton, Kirkmichael, Crosshill
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NS365055
Blanchland Abbey Tower is run as a hotel, and is a post-reformation reworking of former monastic buildings as a tower house
- Closest To: Blanchland
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NY96455035
Blanerne Castle, ruins of C16 tower and courtyard of the Lumsdens, probably abandoned C18/19
- Closest To: Chirnside, Preston, Duns
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT831563
Bleddfa Castle, e/w and scarce footings of motte within bailey & keep on summit C12-13
- Closest To: Knucklas, Monaughty, Radnor
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: Bleddfa Castle
Blencow Hall is a pair of towers connected by a hall block with a courtyard behind. The building was partly in ruins, and a dramatic gash in the masonry has been retained during restoration. It is available for hire.
- Closest To: Littlew Blencow, Greystoke, Skelton
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NY45013260
Blenkinsopp Castle, part restored and part ruin, the site consists of a much altered C14 tower house with much C19 alteration
- Closest To: Gilsland, Greenhead, Haltwhistle
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NY66496450
Blervie Castle, ruined C16 tower house of the Dunbars on ?earlier castle site; fenced off for safety reasons after C20 storm
- Closest To: Forres, Kinloss
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NJ071573
Boddam Castle, ruinous courtyard castle of the Keiths on promontory site probably abandoned C18
- Closest To: Boddam,Peterhead,Cruden Bay
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NK132418
Bodelwyddan Castle, large castellated C19 mansion with extensive grounds
- Closest To: Bodelwyddan
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: SH999748
Boghall Castle, two towers remain of large C16 or earlier castle of the Flemings abandoned C18 and robbed of stone
- Closest To: Biggar
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT041370
Bogs Mount Castle, e/w of ditched motte with traces of a bailey in boggy site next to stream
- Closest To: Presteigne, Kington, Radnor
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: SO276611
Bolam Castle, the overgrown remains of a castle destroyed C14 by the Scots within the ramparts of a presumed Iron Age fort
- Closest To: Whalton, Belsay, Hartburn
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NZ086823
Bolling Hall Bradford is a substantial multi-phase building containing a medieval tower house on either side of a large hall reworked in the 17th century with wings extending to the rear of each tower. It is open as a public museum.
- Closest To: England
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: SE173314
Bolton Castle is a substantial square courtyard castle with massive square corner towers set within a dry moat at the top of a slope overlooking Wensleydale. A substantial part is open to the public for a fee.
- Closest To: England
- Access: Chargeable Public Access
- Grid Reference: SE034918
Bolton Hospital, the scant remnants of a tower within a medieval hospital lie in a field surrounded by marsh
- Closest To: Bolton, Edlingham, Alnwick
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NU106137
Bolton Old Hall is a sizeable house dating mainly to the post-medieval period but incorporating a tower house of the 15th century which has lost its top storey. It can just be seen from the public road but is a private residence.
- Closest To: England
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SE253991
Boltongate Rectory is now a private house, but contains within it the remains of a 15th century tower house, extended in the 17th and 19th centuries.
- Closest To: Boltongate, Ireby, Bothal
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY22964063
Bonnybridge Motte, a mutilated rectangular C12 ditched motte incorporating Roman e/w in school grounds
- Closest To: Bonnybridge, Greenhill, Bonnyfield
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NS824798
Bonshaw Tower, C16 tower of the Irvings still occupied by that family and available to hire as a venue
- Closest To: Kirtlebridge, Eaglesfield, Kirkpatrick-Fleming
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY243720
Bonvilles Castle, site of lost ?hall-house destroyed by colliery and build over by housing
- Closest To: Saundersfoot
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SN126052