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Dalhousie Castle Painting

Art from Scotland - Painting of Dalhousie Castle

Dalhousie Castle was built over 800 years ago by the Ramsays of Dalhousie. It is situated eight miles south of Edinburgh on the banks of the River Esk.
The main parts of the present structure were added about 1450. The 11 inch thick walls were quarried from the red stone on the opposite bank of the South Esk River.

Originally access to the castle was obtained by crossing a drawbridge over a deep dry moat.
Fordun records state Sir William Ramsay of the Dalhousie as having defeated the English at Nisbet Moor in 1355. In 1400 a later Sir Alexander Ramsay withstood a 6 months siege at Dalhousie laid by King Henry IV of England.

History records Dalhousie to be the last castle in Scotland to be besieged by an English king in person.

It was converted to a hotel in 1972.

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