Hume Castle

Hume Castle
Hume, Berwickshire, Scotland
Hume Castle
Coordinates	55°39′55″N 2°28′15″W / 55.66528°N 2.47083°W / 55.66528; -2.47083
Type	Castle of enceinte, recreated as a folly
Site information
Owner	Clan Home Association / Historic Scotland
Open to the public	Yes
Condition	Ruined, rebuilt as folly
Site history
Built	12th/13th century
Built by	William de Home
Materials	Stone
Demolished	1650

Hume Castle is the heavily modified remnants of a late 12th- or early 13th-century castle of enceinte held by the powerful Hume or Home family, Wardens of the Eastern March who became successively the Lords Home and the Earls of Home. The village of Hume is located between Greenlaw and Kelso, two miles north of the village of Stichill, in Berwickshire, Scotland. (OS ref.- NT704413). It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, recorded as such by Historic Environment Scotland.^[1]

Standing as it does, on an impressive height above its eponymous castleton, it commands fine prospects across the Merse, with views to the English border at Carter Bar. It had historically been used as a beacon to warn of invasion. Its enormous walls were created in the 18th century but remnants of the central keep and other features can still be seen.