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Fiddleton Bankend
Tower House (Medieval)
Site Name Fiddleton Bankend
Classification Tower House (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) 'Hobbie Of Glenvore'; 'glenvorann'
Canmore ID 67763
Site Number NY39NE 7
NGR NY 387 965
NGR Description NY c. 387 965
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67763
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Ewes
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Note (1981)
Fiddleton Bankend NY 387 965 NY39NE 7
There are no visible remains of this tower, depicted as that of 'Hobbie of Glenvore' on a map of 1590 and as 'Glenvorann' in Blaeu's Atlas of 1654. It may have stood close to Fiddleton Bankend cottage where 'a few years' before 1912 'a piece of very substantial masonry' was found 'whilst digging in the stack-yard a little to the west'.
RCAHMS 1981.
(Blaeu 1654b; Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320, 360).
Note (1997)
NY 387 965 NY39NE 7
Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.
