Morton Castle
Deer Park (Medieval)
Site Name Morton Castle
Classification Deer Park (Medieval)
Canmore ID 65180
Site Number NX89NE 44
NGR NX 890 992
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Morton
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NX89NE 44 890 992.
(See NX99NW 14.)
Symson (A Symson 1684) notes that there was a park built by Sir Thomas Randolph (c. 1330) near to Morton Castle (NX 890 992), 'on the face of a very great and high hill'.
It was leased to Gilbert, son of Duncan, about 1376 (J M Gilbert 1979) (In this context, a park was an enclosed game reserve surrounded by
a ditch and bank, on top of which was a palisade - of NS79SE 7.)
M L Anderson 1967
