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Visit Torthorwald and the surrounding villages and stay in bed & breakfast accommodation:
Torthorwald, Dumfries and Galloway, is a village lying 4 miles North East of Dumfries. William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England, was born here; so too was John Paton, the missionary to the New Hebrides. There is a memorial to Paton, formerly erected on a gable of his birthplace, which has been demolished, and now on a cairn near the village.
Vestiges of two Iron Age forms on the brow of the brae show two or three concentric trenches. Torthorwald Castle stands on a series of earthworks of early medieval date. The site was, from the mid-l3th century at least, a stronghold of the Kirkpatricks; in 1418, William de Carleil married the heiress, and most of the time thereafter, until about 1715, the tower was in Carlyle hands. The present sturdy barrel-vaulted remains seem to have been largely built by William. In 1544 Lord Carlyle looted the castle of all its contents in a raid against his sister-in-law; little six-year-old Elizabeth Carlyle, the heiress, was abducted from here in 1574 by her uncle, Michael Carlyle, and traded for years among rival branches of the family.
Torthorwald was erected a burgh of barony on the 23rd of December 1473.
Nearby towns: Annan, Dumfries, Lockerbie, Thornhill
Nearby villages: Amisfield Town, Annandale, Applegarth Town, Auchencairn, Cargenbridge, Carrutherstown, Clarencefield, Collin, Cummertrees, Dalswinton, Dalton, Duncow, Glencaple, Greenhill, Hightae, Holywood, Kelton, Kingholm Quay, Kirkconnell, Kirkton, Locharbriggs, Lochmaben, Maxwelltown, Mouswald, Nithsdale, Racks, Ruthwell, Templand, Tinwald
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