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!
Whiteside Tower, ruins of C16 tower of the Haliburtons or Haitlies on hillside site, ?bastle house
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT643383
Whithorn Castle or Isle Castle, privately occupied C17 tower of the Houstons on promontory used as very early Christian site
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NX476366
Whitslaid Tower, ruins of C16 tower of the Lauders sold late C17 and still in use c1700
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT557445
Whittingehame Castle, privately occupied C15 tower of the Douglases; fell into disuse but was restored by the Balfours
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NT602732
Whittingham Tower is a predominantly 15th century tower house. It perhaps incorporates earlier buildings and was extensively remodelled in the 19th century as alms houses. Topday is it a private home.
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NU06921188
Whitton Tower, ruins of C16 tower of the Riddells restored C17 but probably abandoned C18
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT759223
Whitton Tower is a 14th century tower house that was restored in the 17th century, extended in the 18th and largely rebuilt in the 19th, with wings occupying the old barmkin area.
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NU05650104
Whytbank Tower or Whytebank, privately occupied C16 tower of the Pringles, probably abandoned C18, undergoing restoration
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NT442377
Widdrington Castle was a 14th century tower house consisting of a principal tower, hall and solar. It was reworked and extended in the 17th century, then demolished in the 18th, evenbtually being replaced by a mansion in the 19th century, itself now demolished. All that remains is a large round mound in a field.
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NZ256958
Wigtown Castle, site of C13 royal castle demolished in 1310 and never reoccupied
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NX437550
Willimoteswick Manor, Bardon Mill
Willimoteswick Manor was an impressive fortified courtyard with a hall, tower and gatehouse. The gate tower is all that survives with parts of the barmkin incorporated in farm buildings.
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY771636
Windgate, ruins of C16 bastle-house associated in legend with feud between Pringles of Symington and Baillies of Lamington
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT016272
Windydoors Tower, ruins of C16 bastle house within working farm
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NT431398
Winkston Tower, privately occupied & remodelled C16 tower house of Dicksons on working farm
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NT244430
Winton House or Castle, occupied C15 tower of the Setons rebuilt C16 after destruction & extended C17-19. Available as a venue
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NT439696
Wiston Castle, interesting and unaltered motte and bailey castle with shell keep
- Access: Free Public Access
Witches Knowe Ochiltree, large ditched motte on riverside location, ?occupied by Colvilles C12/13
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS502217
Witton Castle forms the centrepiece of a holiday park today, but remains a private home. It was part demolished and reworked in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, but was originally a walled courtyard with a great tower in one corner.
- Access: Occasional Access
- Grid Reference: NZ154304
Witton Tower is a large rambling house with parts dating to the 12th century and including a tower house, perhaps 15th century. The whole was a hotel, but it is now subdivided into private dwellings and cannot be seen from the public road.
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NZ14343130
Wolfscastle, e/w of ditched motte within oval bailey at river confluence ?occupied to C13
- Access: Free Public Access
Wolstey Castle was a small defended courtyard built for the protection of Holme Coltram Abbey. It remained in use into the 17th century before being demolished. Today it survives as a squarish ditch in a field, with stone footings overgrown by turf on the central platform.
- Access: No Access
- Grid Reference: NY105506
Womaston Castle, e/w of ditched motte within private grounds, any bailey lost in landscaping
- Access: No Access
Woodend Motte, modest sized motte on burnside site overlooking river valley
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS555887
Woodhead House, ruins of C16 tower of Lennoxes in grounds of C18 Lennox Castle, which replaced it
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NS606783
Woodhouse Tower, ruins of C16 tower of the Irvings which collapsed & was repaired C19
- Access: S.O.A.C. Public Access
- Grid Reference: NY250714