Nunraw
Nunraw is an estate in East Lothian, Scotland. It includes the Whitecastle, a hillfort, situated on the edge of the Lammermuir Hills, two miles south of the village of Garvald.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: hillfort in East Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “White Castle”, “White Castle fort”, and “White Castle Fort”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Nunraw Abbey and Stoneypath Tower.
Nunraw Abbey
Monastery
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Nunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working Trappist monastery. It was the first Cistercian house to be founded in Scotland since the Scottish Reformation. Nunraw Abbey is situated 1½ miles northwest of Nunraw.
Stoneypath Tower
Castle
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stoneypath Tower, is an L-plan tower house dating from the late sixteenth century, about 3.5 miles south of East Linton, and east of the Whittinghame Water in East Lothian, Scotland. Stoneypath Tower is situated 2 miles northwest of Nunraw.
Donolly Reservoir
Photo: Keith Burns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Donolly Reservoir is situated 2 miles west of Nunraw.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Garvald and Whittingehame.
Garvald
Village
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garvald is a village south-east of Haddington in East Lothian, Scotland. It lies on the Papana Water south of the B6370, east of Gifford. The combined parish of Garvald and Bara, borders Whittingehame to the East, Morham to the North, Yester to the West, and Lauder to the South. Garvald is situated 2 miles northwest of Nunraw.
Whittingehame
Hamlet
Photo: Liz ‘n’ Jim, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whittingehame is a parish with a small village in East Lothian, Scotland, about halfway between Haddington and Dunbar, and near East Linton. The area is on the slopes of the Lammermuir Hills. Whittingehame is situated 3 miles north of Nunraw.
Stenton
Village
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Stenton is a parish and village in East Lothian, Scotland. It is bounded on the north by parts of the parishes of Prestonkirk and Dunbar, on the east by Spott and on the west by Whittingehame. Stenton is situated 3½ miles north of Nunraw.
Nunraw
- Categories: contour fort, hillfort, grassland, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.90902° or 55° 54′ 33″ northLongitude
-2.62002° or 2° 37′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C7VW95H+JXOpenStreetMap ID
way 97100524OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=grassWikidata ID
Q7994518
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nunraw”. Photo: Ewen Rennie, CC BY-SA 2.0.