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Hoddom Castle, Hoddom
 

 Location 5 miles north-west of Annan, on the B723. in the Hoddom Castle Caravan Park, off the B725.

 
 

Hoddom Castle, built in the 16th century and was a L type tower house,  by Sir John Maxwell .The tower was in the northern corner of a  walled  courtyard and moat, which had two  round towers as well. The English captured the castle in 1570. Sir Richard Murray acquired it in 1626, he remodelled the tower and added another two storeys .
 

 

 

 

 

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