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Location
Balblair, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Description
Midmar Castle is situated north of the Hill of Fare, 3 miles west of Echt in Aberdeenshire. the castle was completed around 1570 by the Gordons of Grampian. Midmar Castle is a Z-plan tower with a square tower at one end and a flat-topped round tower at the opposite end. The castle is made up of three separate blocks - the 16th Z-house, an 18th-century L-shaped east wing and a long rectangular west wing enclosing an entrance terrace and forecourt. The Z-house has a central block of five floors, a circular tower of six floors to the south-east and a square tower of five floors containing the main stairs to the north-west. The circular tower is flat topped with a castellated parapet, the main block has a steeply pitched and slated roof, with corbelled square corner turrets at the north-east and south-west corners. The square tower has a pitched roof with corbelled rounds. The chimneys are coped and the gables crow-stepped.
There is a stone circle from the 3rd millennium BC in the graveyard of the church.
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Dunnideer Castle, Aberdeenshire
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Esslemont Castle, Aberdeenshire
Forbes Castle, Aberdeenshire
Harthill Castle, Aberdeenshire
Leslie Castle, Aberdeenshire
Licklyhead Castle, Aberdeenshire
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Udny Castle, Aberdeenshire
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