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!
Armadale Castle, roofless shell of C19 mansion containing earlier work. Estate and gardens open to the public
- Closest To: Armadale
- Access: Chargeable Public Access
- Grid Reference: NG640047
Armathwaite Castle is a renovated mansion built around a tower house of the 15th century, extended in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. The castle can just be seen from a nearby bridge, and sits on a raised river bank.
- Closest To: Armathwaite, Kirkoswald, High Hesket
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY50574587
Arnage Castle, privately occupied C16 tower of Cheynes extended by the Rosses C18
- Closest To: Ellon, Auchnagatt, Methlick
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NJ936370
Arnhall Castle, ruins of C17 tower house on private estate land
- Closest To: Dunblane, Bridge of Allan, Doune
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS763986
Arniston House, occupied C18 Adam mansion containing fragments of C16 tower house, all of the Dundases
- Closest To: Gorebridge
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NT325594
Arnot Tower, ruined C16 tower within private grounds of C19 house. Gardens no longer seem to be open to public
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NO207016
Arnside Tower is a ruined tower house in fields next to a farm, with a public footpath running close by. It was damaged in a storm in 1602 and part demolished.
- Closest To: Milnthorpe, Storth, Arnside, Silverdale, Carnforth, Burton-in-Kendal
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: SD45777684
Aros Castle, ruined hall and courtyard castle of the MacDougalls and Macdonalds, and later MacLeans, abandoned in C18
- Closest To: Salen, Mull
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NM563450
Arrochar Castle, supposed seat of the MacFarlanes C17. Site occupied by a hotel formerly known as Arrochar House
- Closest To: Arrochar,Tarbet
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NN297040
Asgog Castle, ruins of C15 tower of the Lamonts destroyed by Campbells C17. Not to be confused with Ascog on the Isle of Bute
- Closest To: Kames
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NR947705
Ashintully Castle, an occupied C16 tower house of Spaldings extended C17 and abandoned. Repaired and reoccupied C19
- Closest To: Bridge of Cally, Spittal of Glenshee
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NO101612
Askerton Castle started out life as a hall-house, but was strengthened in the 15th century with the addition of a square tower at each end of the old hall. This was extended further with the addition of a courtyard wall to the rear, now forming a U-shaped mansion with small courtyard.
- Closest To: Brampton, Gilsland
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY550692
Askham Hall is a large 18th century mansion house used as a hotel. The south wing contains a tower house with two wings that dates to perhaps the 14th century. It was reworked in the 16th century and again in the 18th - and to the rear is a service courtyard, post-medieval.
- Closest To: Askham, Penrith
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NY51622394
Asliesk Castle, ruins of C16 tower house of the Dunbars on working farm - fenced off for safety reasons
- Closest To: Forres, Kinloss
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NJ108597
Asloun Castle, ruins of C16/17 tower house of the Calders and later, Forbeses, in private garden
- Closest To: Alford
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NJ542149
Auchanachie Castle or House, privately occupied C16 tower house of the Gordons extended to C18 and refurbished C20
- Closest To: Huntly,Rothiemay,Keith,Ruthven
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NJ499469
Auchans Castle, C16 tower of Wallaces extended C17 by Cochranes. New house (demolished) built C19, castle abandoned C20
- Closest To: Dundonald
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS355346
Auchen Castle, ruins of C13 castle of the Kirkpatricks repurposed as artillery fort C15/16 by Douglases or Maitlands
- Closest To: Moffat, Beatock
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT063035
Auchenbowie Castle or House, privately occupied C16 tower of Bruces extended C17 and then C18+19 by Munros.
- Closest To: Stirling,Plean,Denny
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NS799874
Auchenfranco Castle, faint earthworks of rectangular ditched motte said to have contained masonry
- Closest To: Lochfoot, Cargenbridge, Dumfries
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NX892724
Auchenharvie Castle, ruined C15 tower of the Cunninghames occupied to late C17 and in ruins late C18
- Closest To: Kilwinning, Irvine, Stewarton
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS363443
Auchenskeock Castle, ruins presumed to represent C16 tower house within working farmyard
- Closest To: Dalbeattie, Caulkerbush
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NX917588
Auchindoun, ruins of large C15 tower within later courtyard and earthworks of much earlier multivallate hillfort
- Closest To: Dufftown
- Access: Free Public Access
- Grid Reference: NJ348374
Auchinleck Castle, ruins of castle of unknown date abandoned by C17 on riverside promontory site
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS501232
Auchinvole Castle, site of C16 tower of the Starks substantially extended to C19. Abandoned mid C20 and demolished
- Closest To: Kilsyth, Cumbernauld, Kirkintilloch
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS714769