Polwarth Castle was a castle, located near Polwarth,

Scottish Borders The Scottish Borders ( sco, the Mairches, 'the Marches'; gd, Crìochan na h-Alba) is one of 32 council areas of Scotland. It borders the City of Edinburgh, Dumfries and Galloway, East Lothian, Midlothian, South Lanarkshire, West Lothi ...

in Scotland.

History

Held by the Polwarth family it passed by marriage of Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Patrick de Polwarth of Polwarth, to

John St Clair, 7th Lord Herdmanston John St Clair, Lord Herdmanston, Baron of Carfrae and Cessford, was a Scottish noble of the 14th century. John was the son of William St Clair of Herdmanston and Margaret, daughter of William St Clair, Master of Roslin. He resigned the bar ...

. The castle later passed to the Home of Wedderburn family via the heiress Mariota Sinclair and later to the Scott family. Polwarth was destroyed in the

Rough Wooing The Rough Wooing (December 1543 – March 1551), also known as the Eight Years' War, was part of the Anglo-Scottish Wars of the 16th century. Following its break with the Roman Catholic Church, England attacked Scotland, partly to break the ...

wars of the 1540s.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Polwarth Castle Clan Sinclair Ruined castles in the Scottish Borders