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'Sime Of Whitteside'
Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name 'Sime Of Whitteside'
Classification Tower House (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Whitlawside; 'mereburne'; Muirburn
Canmore ID 67904
Site Number NY48SW 3
NGR NY 444 800
NGR Description NY c. 444 800
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67904
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Canonbie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY48SW 3 c. 444 800.
"Sime of Whitesside" tower is shown W of "Mereburne" (Muirburn) near its confluence with Liddel Water (NY 453 796) on a map of 1590.
(?Whitlawside: NY 444 800)
J and R Hyslop 1912
There is no local information about a tower in this area and although Dr Robson (Hawick Museum) suggests that there may have been a tower associated with Whitlawside (NY48SW 8), he has no positive record of it.
Visited by OS (MJF), 7 August 1979
Note (1981)
'Sime of Whitteside' NY48SW 3
The tower of 'Sime of Whitteside' is noted on a map of 1590 to the W of the junction of the Muir Burn with the River Liddle, but it cannot be located.
RCAHMS 1981.
(Hyslop and Hyslop 1912, 320; Graham 1914, 138).
Note (23 July 1993)
NY 444 800 NY48SW 3
There is no change to the existing record.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 23 July 1993.
Listed as tower.
RCAHMS 1997.
