Cessford Castle
📍 Scottish Borders, Scotland
About
Cessford Castle, is a large ruined mid-15th century L-plan castle near the village of Cessford, midway Jedburgh and Kelso, in the historic county of Roxburghshire, now a division of the Scottish Borders. The Castle is caput of the Barony of Cessford, and the principal stronghold of the Kerr family, notorious Border Reivers, many of whom served as Wardens of the Middle March.
Built around 1450 by Andrew Ker, ancestor of the Earls of Roxburghe. An L-plan castle with up to six storeys, two barrel-vaulted, and walls up to 13 feet thick. Besieged in 1523 by the Earl of Surrey, who admitted it could never have been taken. Abandoned in 1650. Scheduled monument.
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