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Scotland activities on
21 November
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Car park for Threave Castle. That's our hire-car on the left. We call it Sweet Pea, or Pea Pod. From this carpark it is about a mile walk to the castle. |
We walked by a field with Shetland ponies in it, among other animals. |
Moggie on the path to Threave Castle |
Threave Castle, across the river. During tourist season, there is a bell on the shore for you to ring for the ferry-master to come ferry you to the castle. In the "winter season" there is no ferry, so no access to the castle. |
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Margaret Douglas (her first two names) with the
Threave Castle behind her. Threave castle was a Douglas Castle.
That means the Douglas family owned it for a long while.
At one time, the lady of the castle was a woman named Margaret Douglas.
She was known as the fair maid of the castle.
Her beauty was legendary.
One day, while sitting at table, the castle was besieged by
people who did not like the Douglases. A cannon ball came trhough a
window and hit Margaret Douglas' hand, with which she was holding a glass of
wine, and blew it off, to use the crude version of language.
The cannon use to fire the ball was made at the Buchan Smithy, just a few mile away. It was at the Bed & Breakfast that is housed in that smithy that Moggie and Jim spent the night just prior to this visit to Threave Castle. |
Country-side around Castle Douglas |
The Douglas Books store in Castle Douglas. |
The store sign. |
Click here to see more like this at the Cardoness Castle and on the Solway Firth |
Click here to see more like this at the Cairn Holy 1 Stone Circle |
Click here to see more like this at the Cairn Holy 2 Stone Circle |
The view from the window where we had lunch. Actually, we got sandwiches and Cokes to carry out at the Upper Crust bakery in Castle Douglas. We stopped along the firth here to eat our sandwiches. So this is the view out the car window. |
Gravestone in the Wigtown cemetary. Margaret Lachlane was an 18-year-old woman who was killed by tying her to a stake in the tide at low tide and letting the incoming tide drown her. She and another woman, also named Margaret, were treated this way in 1605. |
Click here to see more like this at the Torhouskie Stone Circle |
Click here to see more like this at the Drumtroddan Stone Circle |
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First published 21 November 1998