Dryhope Tower
📍 Scottish Borders, Scotland
About
Dryhope Tower is a ruined Scottish peel tower in the valley of the Yarrow Water, in the historic county of Selkirkshire, now part of the Scottish Borders. It lies approximately equidistant between the burghs of Moffat and Selkirk, and defended the north eastern end of St Mary's Loch. The site itself was protected on two sides, to the east by the Dryhope Burn and to the west by the Kirkstead Burn.
A pele tower built according to a 1535 Scottish Parliament statute requiring Border landholders to build defensible structures. Home of the Scotts of Dryhope; Mary Scott, the 'Flower of Yarrow', was born here and married Wat Scott of Harden, a notorious Border Reiver and ancestor of Sir Walter Scott. Burned by the Crown in 1592.
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