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English: Orchardton Tower This is apparently the only circular tower house in Scotland. It is 33ft high, and 29ft diameter , with walls that vary between 9ft and 6ft thick in the cellar. The tower actually tapers with height. Orchardton Tower was built by John Cairns, probably soon after he retired to his Galloway estates in 1456. The tower stayed with the Cairns family for a century and then passed to the Crown in 1555. In 1615 all the shares in the estate and the tower were brought together again, by Sir Robert Maxwell, 1st Baronet of Orchardton. The Maxwells continued to live at Orchardton until the 7th Baronet started work on a new mansion two miles away in 1765. The costs bankrupted him and in 1785 he sold his estate, including Orchardton Tower, to James Douglas, a Liverpool merchant. In 1878 his successor William Robinson-Douglas demolished and rebuilt the mansion that had been started in 1765. |
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| Author | M J Richardson |
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