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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.
Oliver Castle, an ancient baronial fortalice in Tweedsmuir parish, SW Peeblesshire, on the left side of the river Tweed, nearly opposite Tweedsmuir church, 13½ miles SSE of Biggar. Crowning a rising-ground which now is tufted with a clump of trees, it was the original seat of the Frasers, ancestors of the noble families of Lovat and Saltoun, and passed from them to the Tweedies, who figure in the introduction to Sir Walter Scott's Betrothed, and whose maternal descendant, Thomas Tweedie-Stodart, Esq. (b. 1838; suc. 1869) of Oliver House, a plain modern mansion hard by, holds 1144 acres in the shire, valued at £260 per annum. Oliver Castle was the remotest of a chain of strong ancient towers, situated each within view of the next all down the Tweed to Berwick, and serving both for defence and for beacon-fires in the times of the Border forays. It was eventually relinquished and razed to the ground.—Ord. Sur., sh. 24, 1864.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "an ancient baronial fortalice" (ADL Feature Type: "fortifications") |
| Administrative units: | Tweedsmuir ScoP Peebles Shire ScoCnty |
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