Qualla: Neidpath Castle https://qualla.com/neidpath-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/s/neidpath-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Neidpath Castle https://qualla.com/neidpath-castle Neidpath Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/neidpath-castle/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. Walter Scott wrote a poem about her. The Maid of Neidpath, he called her - Jean Douglas, daughter of William Douglas, Earl of March - who fell in love with a man her family considered beneath her, was forbidden to marry him, watched him sent away, and slowly wasted from grief. When he returned, the legend says, she had thinned so dramatically he did not recognise her, and she died of a broken heart on the spot. She is said to haunt the rubble-built tower above the River Tweed, dressed in a brown full-length gown with a large white collar.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/neidpath-castle-wp/gcvs-neidpath-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Neidpath Castle: The Fraser Beginning https://qualla.com/neidpath-castle/ Photo credit David C. Weinczok, CC BY-SA 4.0. An earlier castle probably stood here between 1263 and 1266, built by Simon Fraser of Oliver Castle while he served as High Sheriff of Tweeddale. The barony passed to the Hay family through marriage in the early 14th century, when the heiress Margaret - granddaughter of the sheri...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/neidpath-castle-wp/gcvs-neidpath-castle-the-fraser-beginning.mp3 0:06 2 full Neidpath Castle: Royal Visitors https://qualla.com/neidpath-castle/ Photo credit Northerner, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mary, Queen of Scots came to Neidpath in 1563, the year after her return from France and her brief, troubled personal rule of Scotland. Her son James VI followed in 1587, by then nearly grown and consolidating the authority that would eventually take him to the English throne. Th...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/neidpath-castle-wp/gcvs-neidpath-castle-royal-visitors.mp3 0:06 3 full Neidpath Castle: The Maid https://qualla.com/neidpath-castle/ Photo credit Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The story of Jean Douglas is the kind of romance that 19th-century Scotland could not resist. She was the youngest daughter of William Douglas, Earl of March. The man she loved was the son of the laird of Tushielaw - acceptable family, but not acceptable for her station. The earl...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/s/neidpath-castle-wp/gcvs-neidpath-castle-the-maid.mp3 0:06 4 full Neidpath Castle: After the Earls https://qualla.com/neidpath-castle/ Photo credit M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0. When the 4th Duke of Queensberry died in 1810, the castle passed - along with the earldom of March - to the Earl of Wemyss, while the dukedom went to the Scotts of Buccleuch. The split was characteristic of how Scottish titles fractured through the 18th and 19th centuries when gr...

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