The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry | Goblinshead | A comprehensive guide to 4,100 castles, towers, historic houses, stately homes and family lands
The Castles of Scotland by Martin Coventry | Goblinshead | A comprehensive guide to 4,100 castles, towers, historic houses, stately homes and family lands
The Castles of Scotland
The Castles of Scotland 

Goldielands Tower

Borders: About 2 miles west and south of Hawick , on minor roads just south of A7, south of the River Teviot.

 

Ruin or site   NT 478128   OS: 79   TD9 0NW

Goldielands Tower is a ruined old tower of the Scotts, near Hawick in the Borders in the south of Scotland. Goldielands Tower (Grose, 1790)

Goldielands Tower is a ruined 16th-century tower house, rectangular in plan, formerly of five storeys. It had a courtyard with two outbuildings and corner towers. The tower had a vaulted basement, with an entresol floor, and turnpike stair, which now ends at the second floor. The chamber above housed both the hall and kitchen. The parapet and attic storey have gone.
  The site is marked on Blaeu’s map of Teviotdale in a small park as ‘Gaudylands’.

Goldielands Tower is a ruined old tower of the Scotts, near Hawick in the Borders in the south of Scotland. Goldieland Tower (Lang & Lang, 1913)

The property passed to the Scotts in 1446, and Scott of Goldielands was ordered to demolish Dryhope Tower in 1592. Walter Scott of Goldielands was one of the leaders of the party that helped to rescue Kinmont Willie from Carlisle Castle in 1596, as recounted in the old ballad, and his burial marker is now in Hawick Museum. Walter Scott of Goldielands won a silver arrow as prize in an archery contest in Selkirk in 1660, and he or another Walter is on record in 1690.
  Reputedly, the last laird of Goldielands was hanged from his own gates for treason.
  Goldielands Tower was drawn by Turner in 1830.

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