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2 unusual facts about Fast Castle


Fast Castle

Its new Scots governor William Haliburton was also able to seize Wark Castle, Northumberland, in 1419.

Rough Wooing


Sire, see Inchkeith,
Also see strong Fast Castle,
So much assault, skirmish and hassle,
Here also close to Dunglass,
Further the side where sits the burgh
the castle conquered is Roxburgh.


Cockburnspath

Nearby Fast Castle was a fictional setting for Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermuir, which in turn inspired Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermuir.


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