Thirlestane Castle
Thirlestane Castle is a castle set in extensive parklands near Lauder in the Borders of Scotland. The site is aptly named Castle Hill, as it stands upon raised ground.Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Black Bull Hotel, 9 Market Place, Lauder.
Black Bull Hotel, 9 Market Place, Lauder
Hotel
Photo: Victuallers, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Black Bull Hotel, 9 Market Place, Lauder is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Thirlestane Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lauder and Addinston.
Lauder
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The former Royal Burgh of Lauder is a town in the Scottish Borders in the historic county of Berwickshire. On the Southern Upland Way, the burgh lies 27 miles southeast of Edinburgh, on the western edge of the Lammermuir Hills.
Addinston
Hamlet
Addinston is a farming village, off the A697, close to the Carfraemill roundabout, with two hill forts and settlements, in Lauderdale in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Berwickshire. Addinston is situated 3½ miles north of Thirlestane Castle.
Birkenside
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Birkenside is a village in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. Birkenside is situated 4 miles southeast of Thirlestane Castle.
Thirlestane Castle
- Type: Museum
- Description: castle and museum in Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Categories: castle, country house, independent museum, building, tourism, historic site, and tourist attraction
- Location: Scottish Borders, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.7223° or 55° 43′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.74377° or 2° 44′ 38″ westOpen location code
9C7VP7C4+WFOpenStreetMap ID
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historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q17567863
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Thirlestane Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Thirlestane gaztelua”
- Chinese: “瑟勒斯坦城堡”
- French: “château de Thirlestane”
- French: “Château de Thirlestane”
- German: “Thirlestane Castle”
- Italian: “Castello di Thirlestane”
- Italian: “Thirlestane Castle”
- Japanese: “サールスタン城”
- Japanese: “サールズテーン城”
- Polish: “zamek Thirlestane”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Thirlestane”
- Russian: “Замок Терлстейн”
- Russian: “Тирлестейн”
- Turkish: “Thirlestane Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Тірлестан”
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