Gight Castle
📍 Aberdeenshire, Scotland
About
Gight is an estate in the parish of Fyvie in the Formartine area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is best known as the location of the 16th-century Gight Castle, ancestral home of Lord Byron.
Built in the 16th century by the Gordons of Gight, notorious for their wild and lawless ways. Catherine Gordon of Gight married 'Mad Jack' Byron in 1785 and sold the estate to pay his debts — their son was the poet Lord Byron. The castle was abandoned and the roof stripped. The ruins perch dramatically above a gorge on the River Ythan, reached by a woodland path.
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