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Cumbernauld Castle
Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland
The Comyn Motte at Cumbernauld Park
Cumbernauld Castle is located in North Lanarkshire
Cumbernauld Castle
Cumbernauld Castle
Coordinates55°57′43″N 3°57′51″W / 55.961920°N 3.964127°W / 55.961920; -3.964127
Site information
ConditionRuined

Cumbernauld Castle was the predecessor of Cumbernauld House in the Park in Cumbernauld. The Motte of the earliest castle survives, and stones of the second castle are incorporated in the present house.

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Water Tower. For many years Cumbernauld was chiefly populated around what is now called The Village with the medieval castle a short walk away surrounded...

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The feudal barony of Cumbernauld was a feudal barony with its caput baronium originally at Cumbernauld Castle in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The barony...

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the north-east of Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It extends one to two miles (two to three kilometres) from Cumbernauld Town Centre. Abronhill...

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The Red Burn is one of two main streams which flow out of Cumbernauld. The Scottish New Town’s name derives from the Gaelic for "the meeting of the waters"...

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Boghall Castle

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a bull, and a flock of 617 sheep. Regent Lennox sacked the houses of Cumbernauld and Boghall in September and October 1570, and expelled Lord Fleming's...

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Dunbartonshire

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transferred to Stirlingshire, whilst the two parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld were transferred from Stirlingshire to Dunbartonshire, despite not adjoining...

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and 20th centuries. The town now has links with Cumbernauld at one time being part of Cumbernauld and Kilsyth District Council. The towns also have...

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James Crichton of Frendraught

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of Frendraught Castle would be the lowest or "laighest". This was an old Scots saying, used in 1544 by Lord Fleming at Cumbernauld Castle. John Toash's...

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