Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Floors Castle

Floors Castle, seat of the Duke of Roxburghe, on left bank of river Tweed, in par. and 1 mile W. of Kelso, Roxburghshire; built 1718 (by Sir John Vanbrugh), and remodelled 1849, it is now a palatial Tudor pile, with extensive grounds and gardens.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Kelso ScoP       Roxburghshire ScoCnty

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