Qualla: Dundas Castle https://qualla.com/dundas-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dundas-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dundas Castle https://qualla.com/dundas-castle Dundas Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/dundas-castle/ Photo credit Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1416, James Dundas walked into the court of the Duke of Albany, then effectively the ruler of Scotland, and asked for a licence to build a stone keep on his family's land just west of Edinburgh. He got it. The keep he built, on a quiet rise above a small loch with the Firth of Forth shimmering in the distance, is still standing six centuries later. The Dundas family had already been on this land for more than two hundred years when James got his licence. They would hold it for almost five hundred more.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dundas-castle-wp/gcvw-dundas-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dundas Castle: Eight Hundred Years of One Family https://qualla.com/dundas-castle/ Photo credit Gunther Tschuch, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name Dundas comes from the Gaelic dùn deas, meaning "south hill" or "pretty hill." The lands first appear in the 11th century, granted by King Malcolm Canmore to his paternal first cousin Gospatrick, who had fled south to escape William the Conqueror. They passed through Gosp...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dundas-castle-wp/gcvw-dundas-castle-eight-hundred-years-of-one-family.mp3 0:06 2 full Dundas Castle: Cromwell at the Door https://qualla.com/dundas-castle/ Photo credit M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0. Oliver Cromwell stayed at Dundas Castle around the time of the Battle of Dunbar in September 1650, during his Scottish campaign. A statue of him still stands outside the keep, an unusual choice given Scottish memories of his occupation. In 1818, the family commissioned the archit...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dundas-castle-wp/gcvw-dundas-castle-cromwell-at-the-door.mp3 0:06 3 full Dundas Castle: Defending the Forth Bridge https://qualla.com/dundas-castle/ Photo credit Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0. Clark's son John took the double-barrelled name Stewart-Clark in his father's honour and was made a baronet in 1918. During the Second World War, Dundas Castle's strategic position above the Firth of Forth gave it a new purpose. It became the headquarters for protecting the Forth...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/dundas-castle-wp/gcvw-dundas-castle-defending-the-forth-bridge.mp3 0:06 4 full Dundas Castle: Restoration and Reuse https://qualla.com/dundas-castle/ Photo credit John, CC BY-SA 4.0. When Sir Jack inherited the property in 1995, it had deteriorated badly. The 15th-century keep had been uninhabited for over three hundred years. Dry rot had spread through the Burn mansion. He considered selling and then chose, instead, the long road of restoration. The keep's p...

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