Qualla: Midhope Castle https://qualla.com/midhope-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:17 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/midhope-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Midhope Castle https://qualla.com/midhope-castle Midhope Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/midhope-castle/ Photo credit Camer01, CC BY-SA 3.0. If you have watched Outlander, you have seen this building. Midhope Castle is Lallybroch, the ancestral Fraser home in Diana Gabaldon's novels and the Starz adaptation, the place Jamie and Claire return to between adventures. The cameras shoot the exterior; the interiors are sets. What is actually here, on the Hopetoun estate about four kilometres west of South Queensferry, is a 16th-century tower house that has stood quietly for nearly five hundred years, mostly empty, mostly forgotten, until a television crew decided this was exactly the right kind of slightly ruined Scottish castle to be a fictional Highland home.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/midhope-castle-wp/gcvw-midhope-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Midhope Castle: The Martins and the Drummonds https://qualla.com/midhope-castle/ Photo credit Gunther Tschuch, CC BY-SA 4.0. The lands of Midhope passed through the Graham, Livingstone, and Martin families before Sir James Hamilton of Finnart picked up half of them in 1537. John Martin of Midhope, the laird in 1438, is thought to have built the original tower house; his widow Christian held the right t...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/midhope-castle-wp/gcvw-midhope-castle-the-martins-and-the-drummonds.mp3 0:06 2 full Midhope Castle: A Servant Returns the Queen's Jewels https://qualla.com/midhope-castle/ Photo credit Madir at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Alexander Drummond was a servant of the Earl of Huntly, who considered him a cousin. On 7 August 1573, on Huntly's behalf, Drummond rode to Holyrood Palace and handed over jewels belonging to Mary, Queen of Scots, to Regent Morton. By then Mary had been imprisoned in England for ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/midhope-castle-wp/gcvw-midhope-castle-a-servant-returns-the-queens-jewels.mp3 0:06 3 full Midhope Castle: The 1678 Facelift https://qualla.com/midhope-castle/ Photo credit George Gastin, CC0. In 1678 Midhope was modernised. The entrance tower was removed, the eastern extension was heightened and lengthened, a new doorway was cut, and a small courtyard was laid out to the south. The five-storey tower house with its irregular outline took on something closer to the symm...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/w/midhope-castle-wp/gcvw-midhope-castle-the-1678-facelift.mp3 0:06 4 full Midhope Castle: Becoming Lallybroch https://qualla.com/midhope-castle/ Photo credit Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK, CC BY 2.0. Starz first aired Outlander in 2014. The production scouted Scotland for a Highland family home that felt both lived-in and slightly fortified. They found Midhope. The exterior shots became Lallybroch, also known as Broch Tuarach in the books, the home of Jamie Fraser. The interi...

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