Burleigh Castle

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Building summary
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Name Burleigh Castle
Address ?
Postcode n/a
Other names Burleigh Walls
Date Not known
OS grid ref NO 2525 0746
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Canmore listing details[1]
Canmore ID 29775
Site Number NO20NE 19
Address/Site Name Burleigh Castle
Classification House (Period Unassigned)

Burleigh Castle, also known as Burleigh Walls, is a name given to a house thought to have been to the west of Falkland Palace.

Canmore locates it to the north of the Maspie Burn, and within the designated designed landscape of Falkland Palace.

Further Canmore details

OS 6" map (1854)

The ruins were called 'Burleigh Castle' and were the property of a nobleman of the name of Burleigh.

Name Book 1854.

A fragment of wall in a garden to the west of Falkland Palace (NO20NE 3), known as 'The Burleigh Walls', was the remains of a dwelling-house which belonged to the Balfours of Burleigh. (Burleigh Castle is at NO 129 047).

J W Taylor 1861.

No remains found during field investigation.

Visited by OS (WDJ), 21 March 1967[1]

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