Cessford Castle

Cessford Castle, is a large ruined mid-15th century L-plan castle near the village of Cessford, midway Jedburgh and Kelso, in the historic county of Roxburghshire, now a division of the Scottish Borders. The Castle is caput of the Barony of Cessford, and the principal stronghold of the Kerr family, notorious Border Reivers, many of whom served as Wardens of the Middle March.

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