Hume Castle
📍 Scottish Borders, Scotland
About
Hume Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th- or early 13th-century castle of enceinte held by the powerful Hume or Home family, Wardens of the Eastern March who became successively the Lords Home and the Earls of Home. The village of Hume is located between Greenlaw and Kelso, two miles north of the village of Stichill, in Berwickshire, Scotland.. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, recorded as such by Historic Environment Scotland.
An ancient stronghold of the Home family (Earls of Home) dating from at least the 13th century. Besieged and captured repeatedly during Anglo-Scottish conflicts. The garrison's defiant response 'I, Willie Wastle, stand firm in my castle' became a famous nursery rhyme. The medieval castle was destroyed and rebuilt as a castellated folly in 1794. The hilltop views across the Borders to the Cheviots are magnificent.
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