Fast Castle
📍 Scottish Borders, Scotland
About
Fast Castle is the ruined remains of a coastal fortress in Berwickshire, south-east Scotland, in the Scottish Borders. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) north west of the village of Coldingham, and just outside the St Abb's Head National Nature Reserve, run by the National Trust for Scotland. The site is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
A 14th-century stronghold perched on a sheer promontory above the North Sea, held by the Home family. Captured and recaptured during the Anglo-Scottish wars and the 'Rough Wooing' of the 1540s. Allegedly linked to the Gowrie Conspiracy of 1600 and rumoured to hide treasure. The approach requires nerve — a narrow path across a chasm once spanned by drawbridge.
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