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Guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain
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English: Guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain Guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain, mighty Hermitage, the Strength of Liddesdale, was a formidable fortress, right in the heart of reiver country. If walls could talk, what tales this place would tell
In the 13th century, the wicked Lord de Soules held sway here. Tradition says he was eventually encased in lead and boiled alive by a local magician.
Hermitage then became a stronghold of the English Dacre family of Cumberland, and next of the powerful Earls of Douglas. In 1556, James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, was badly wounded in a skirmish be Wee Jock Elliot of the Park, a noted reiver. The Earls bodyguards carried him back to Hermitage, only to find more Elliots had taken the castle and he had to bargain to get into his own home. Bothwells lover, Mary Queen of Scots, was in Jedburgh on a royal visit and she set off to make the hazardous 30 mile journey across bleak moorland to be with him. The tryst lasted two hours, but on her way back, Marys horse stumbled into a bog and she came down with a severe fever. Mary and Bothwell married seven months later. |
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| Author | Adam Ward |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Adam Ward and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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