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!
Achanelid, rectangular motte with bank ?enclosing bailey area on riverside site and surrounding ditch
- Closest To: Clachan of Glendaruel
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS006873
Achnacarry Castle, ruins of C17 tower house of Camerons destroyed C18; also occupied C19 mansion of same name
- Closest To: Spean Bridge
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NN175879
Achnagairn Castle or House, occupied C19/20 baronial-style mansion available for use as a venue
- Closest To: Kirkhill, Beauly, Inverness
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NH554449
Ackergill Tower, occupied C16 tower of the Keiths, Sinclairs & Dunbars extended to C19
- Closest To: Wick, Keiss
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: ND353547
Adpar Motte, relandscaped e/w of ?motte within private grounds, no evidence of ditch or bailey
- Closest To: Newcastle Emlyn
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SN309409
Adwick le Street Castle Hills is a complex earthwork consisting of a ditched motte with two baileys the innermost having an internal bank. It was abandoned in favour of the nearby Radcliffe Moat.
- Closest To: England
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: SE551067
Affleck Castle, privately occupied C15 tower house of the Auchenlecks and later, Reids; abandoned C18 and refurbished
- Closest To: Monikie, Carnoustie, Monifieth, Broughty Ferry, Dundee
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NO493389
- Closest To: Rothes,Maggieknockater
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NJ291508
Aiket Castle, privately occupied C15 tower of the Cunninghames extended C17 and occupied to C20. Restored late C20
- Closest To: Dunlop, Stewarton, Beith
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NS388488
Aikwood Tower, occupied C16 tower of the Scotts restored C20 by Lord Steel; now available as a venue
- Closest To: Selkirk, Ettrickbridge
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NT420260
Ailsa Castle, ruins of tower of the Hamiltons in ruins C16 and restored, used as a prison until C19
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NX022995
Airdrie House, much extended and altered occupied C16 tower of the Lumsdens, Prestons and Anstruthers
- Closest To: Crail, Anstruther
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NO567084
Airds Castle, ruins of C15 castle of Macdonalds later held from the Crown on coastal promontory site
- Closest To: Carradale, Saddell
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NR820383
Airlie Castle, privately occupied C18 mansion incorporating parts of a castle of the Ogilvies dating back to the 15th century
- Closest To: Alyth, Kirriemuir
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NO293522
Airth Castle, occupied C15 tower of Bruces on site of earlier castle, extended C16-19 and now run as a hotel
- Closest To: Airth, Kincardine, Stenhousemuir
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS900868
Aithernie Castle, ruins of C16/17 tower house of the Carmichaels, Inglises, Riggses and Watsons, ruined by early C19
- Closest To: Leven, Kennoway, Methil, Largo
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NO380357
Aldborough Studforth Hill is a curving earthwork just outside the Roman wall of Aldborough and may have been the amphitheatre. It is believed to have been used as a castle.
- Closest To: England
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SE407660
Aldie Castle, privately occupied C16 tower of the Mercers with later courtyard abandoned C18 and restored C20
- Closest To: Crook of Devon, Powmill, Yetts o'Muckhart
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NT052977
Aldingham Grange is the name given to a moated manorial site which fell out of use in the 13th century and survives solely as a partial wet ditch. The manor site is occupied by Moat Farm.
- Closest To: England
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SD278700
Aldingham Motte is a well-defined ditched motte and vaguely surviving traces of a bailey to the south of Aldingham Grange. It has been partially destroyed by coastal erosion and is surrounded by fields.
- Closest To: England
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SD278698
Aldourie Castle, occupied C17 tower house of the Mackintoshes extended C19 and now run as a hotel
- Closest To: Dores, Inverness
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NH601372
Allardice Castle, privately occupied and restored C16 tower house of the Allardices extended C17 into courtyard mansion
- Closest To: Inverbervie, Arbuthnott
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NO818739
Alloa Tower, a large C14 tower house of the Erskine Earls of Mar; later extensions now demolished. National Trust for Scotland.
- Closest To: Alloa
- Access: Chargeable Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS889925
Allt Cunedda or Cae Gaer, much denuded e/w of oval fortified enclosure - uncertain date or use
- Closest To: Kidwelly
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SN405088
Allt Y Ferin Castle or Dinweilyr, motte and?bailey within earlier promontory fort
- Closest To: Llanegwad
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: SN522232