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New Slains Castle. / 57.4153354°N 1.8322935°W / 57.4153354; -1.8322935. Slains Castle, also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from the nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It overlooks the North Sea from its cliff-top site one kilometre ( 5⁄8 mile) east of Cruden Bay.
Nov 2, 2013 · The original castle was just a few miles away, but New Slains was constructed by the recently re-established Earl of Erroll in the 16th century. The castle ruins can be found by following the dry ...
Oct 6, 2019 · Not to be confused with Slains Castle, the remnants of which lie approximately 6 miles to the south-west, New Slains Castle is a vast, imposing ruin that teeters on south-facing cliffs close to the pleasant village of Cruden Bay. For a ruin, New Slains Castle is astonishingly complete, the interior a complicated maze of interlinking rooms, corridors, and doorways. Unlike similar sites in ...
It sits at the top of cliffs on the North Sea coast of Aberdeenshire, overlooking the Bay of Cruden to the southwest, and the villages of Port Erroll and Cruden Bay around 1km to the west. New Slains Castle is built predominately of pink granite rubble, with exterior ashlar dressings of the same granite, added during the 1836-37 renovations of ...
Jul 14, 2021 · The secrets of Slains Castle and a Cold War early-warning radio station are the focus of David Brown’s guided historic walk. Gayle checks it out. The spectacular ruin of Slains Castle, perched ...
Slains Castle, also known as New Slains Castle to distinguish it from nearby Old Slains Castle, is a ruined castle in Aberdeenshire. It overlooks the North Sea from its cliff-top site just east of Cruden Bay. The core of the castle is a 16th-century tower house, built by the 9th Earl of Erroll. Significant reconstruction of the castle has been ...
New Slains Castle was originally a 16th-century tower house, built by the 9th Earl of Erroll and is set on the former site of Bowness Castle but a new castle was eventually built around the tower house, becoming New Slains Castle. It remained within the Erroll family for many generations and if you look at the Slains Castle old pictures online ...
