Latest Images by Richard Paxman http://www.geograph.org.uk/ 2009-11-28T21:54:44GMT text/html 2007-07-17T02:21:28GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 58.365843 -4.639246 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/496875 Strath More in Sutherland, taken a couple of hundred metres south of the broch of Dun Dornaigul (which is just in the next square north), with a cloud covered Ben Hope in the distance. text/html 2007-07-15T11:44:37GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 57.120220 -5.178990 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/495022 Taken from the South Glen Shiel Ridge. text/html 2007-07-15T11:11:29GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 54.919639 -5.135845 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494978 Lochnaw Castle (in the pouring rain), home (once upon a time) of the Agnew family. The oldest bit is the tall tower, which is 16th century. It was an hotel for a while, but had stopped being so when I arrived there to stay recently! It is now a private home again (with a very long and muddy drive!). text/html 2007-07-15T10:56:32GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 58.577342 -3.073847 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494960 The grid line between squares ND3765 and ND3766 passes right through this building, which is perhaps what did all the damage?! The good bit is in ND3765. text/html 2007-07-15T10:50:46GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 58.575992 -3.063317 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494955 For my money, Bucholie (aka Bucholly) Castle is one of the most stunningly positioned castles in Britain, and one of the least known. Its presence is perhaps not advertised because access is so dangerous. To get into the gate tower means crossing a narrow neck of land, perhaps a metre wide, with sheer drops to the sea on either side. It was built in the 13th century by the Mowat family. text/html 2007-07-15T10:34:43GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 57.634922 -2.577770 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494951 Inchdrewer Castle stands on high ground looking out over Banff to the North Sea. It is a fine house, now fallen on sad days. Like most Scottish castles, it has seen its share of incidents! Lord Banff was murdered here by his own servants (probably having earned it!), who in an attempt to hide their crime, torched the castle. It remained a ruin for a long time but has undergone some half-hearted restoration. text/html 2007-07-15T10:17:05GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 57.329298 -2.544728 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494946 Westhall consist of a very attractive small towerhouse (castle) with a later mansion added on (to the right). The place was for long a private home, but in recent times has suffered as an unsuccessful hotel, and is now languishing (and deteriorating) while waiting for planning permission to turn it into something else equally unattractive! text/html 2007-07-15T10:11:32GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 57.270727 -2.753792 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494943 Terpersie is a very attractive small Z-plan castle, hidden away behind a farm in a side glen on the south side of the Correen Hills. It was restored from an almost complete ruin within the last 20 years or so. The last Gordon of Terpersie was "out" during the rebellion of 1745, and he hid in the Correen Hills above his house after the defeat at Culloden until eventually he was caught by the searching government troops. They did not at first realise who they had caught, thinking him just a vagrant, until he was brought down to Terpersie where his children on seeing him ran towards him with cries of "Daddy Daddy"!! He was taken to Carlisle and hung! text/html 2007-07-15T09:52:54GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 57.222546 -2.758936 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494936 The remains of a 16th century Z-plan castle, now forming part of the gardens of a later house. text/html 2007-07-15T09:21:51GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 54.832003 -4.173332 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494924 Plunton castle is a 16th century tower built by the Lennox family, from whom it passed by marriage to the Murrays of Broughton. Sir Walter Scott used the castle as the scene for "The Doom of Devorgoil". text/html 2007-07-15T09:13:56GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 55.036332 -3.703788 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494920 Hills Castle or Hills Tower is a fine 16th century fortalice, although somewhat spoilt here by being covered in scaffolding - presumably for re-harling of the walls. The lower bit to the left is an 18th century addition, but what makes Hills unusual is the survival of the gatehouse into the courtyard on the right. text/html 2007-07-15T09:04:18GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 55.033386 -3.178552 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494912 A much added to 16th century tower on the south side of Kirtle Water, that belonged to the Cunninghams. text/html 2007-07-15T08:58:21GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 55.032443 -3.173831 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494908 A typical defensive Scottish borders tower, built in a strong position above the Kirtle Water, where it could defend Scotland from invasion up the nearby London to Glasgow railway - or was that built later!! text/html 2007-07-03T19:00:31GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 54.446065 -2.331971 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/484286 The hill with the limestone walls is the curiously named 'Ward Odds', photographed from where the road, having come down across Nateby Common, bends right to drop down to Nateby. text/html 2007-07-03T18:56:27GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/12242 Richard Paxman 54.434602 -2.316924 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/484284 The wee pimple on the horizon is on the ridge in the centre of this grid square. Down to the left side of the photo can just be seen the hillock of Great Bell (375m), further down the same ridge.