Blervie Castle
Blervie Castle is a ruined 16th-century Z-plan tower house, about 2.5 miles south-east of Forres, Moray, Scotland, and about 1 mile north-east of Rafford. Alternative names are Blare; Blarvie; Blairvie; Blervie Tower; and Ulerin.Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Castle
- Description: tower house in Moray, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Blervie Tower”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sueno’s Stone and Dallas Dhu distillery.
Sueno’s Stone
Photo: Scott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sueno's Stone is a Picto-Scottish Class III standing stone on the north-easterly edge of Forres in Moray and is the largest surviving Pictish style cross-slab stone of its type in Scotland, standing 6.5 metres in height. Sueno’s Stone is situated 2 miles northwest of Blervie Castle.
Dallas Dhu distillery
Museum
Photo: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dallas Dhu distillery is a inactive Speyside single malt Scotch whisky distillery located in Forres, Moray, Scotland. Dallas Dhu means "Black Water Valley" in Gaelic. Dallas Dhu distillery is situated 2 miles west of Blervie Castle.
Forres Academy
School
Forres Academy is a comprehensive community school serving the town of Forres, Scotland, and its rural catchment area in west Moray. As in other Scottish schools, pupils are able to leave after the fourth year of schooling; therefore, the fifth and sixth years are not compulsory. Forres Academy is situated 2 miles west of Blervie Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rafford and Forres.
Rafford
Village
Photo: Phil Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rafford is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is approximately 2.5 miles southeast of the town of Forres, and 5.5 miles northwest of the village of Dallas.
Forres
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Forres is a town in Moray in northeast Scotland, with a population of 9090 in 2020. By the second century AD it was sufficiently famous to be mapped as Οὐάραρ εἴσχυσις — "Varar Estuary" — by Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria.
Kinloss
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kinloss is a village in Moray, Scotland. It is located near the shore of Findhorn Bay, around 3 miles from Findhorn and 2.5 miles from Forres. Northeast of the village is Kinloss Barracks, formerly RAF Kinloss which opened on 1 April 1939. Kinloss is situated 3 miles north of Blervie Castle.
Blervie Castle
- Categories: tower house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Moray, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
57.5951° or 57° 35′ 42″ northLongitude
-3.55619° or 3° 33′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C9RHCWV+2GOpenStreetMap ID
way 1023925085OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q9703763
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In Other Languages
“Blervie Castle” goes by many names.
- Portuguese: “Castelo Blervie”
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