Neidpath Castle was built for the High Sheriff of Tweeddale who died in 1390. It was one of the last Scottish castles to fall to Cromwell in the 1650s. Mary Queen of Scots visited here. Today it is privately owned and open to the public.
Memorialized by Sir Walter Scott in the poem, The Maid of Neidpath, the ghost of a young lady, Jean Douglas, is said to haunt the castle, she having died of a broken heart.
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