Bodesbeck

Gatehouse Classification - Not available

Has been described as a Possible Peel-house

There are no visible remains

NameBodesbeck
Alternative Namesboadsbeck
Medieval County
Historic CountryDumfriesshire
Modern AuthorityDumfries and Galloway
1974 AuthorityDumfries and Galloway
Civil ParishMoffat

Boadsbeck Castle is shown on a map of c. 1590. (Burghley c. 1590)
There are no visible remains of a castle depicted here on a map of about 1590. (Visited by RCAHMS (PC), 15 March 1990. Burghley c. 1590)
Listed as tower. (RCAHMS 1997)

Gatehouse Comments

Catalogued in Canmore as a 'castle'. Location is most likely that of a bastle. Exact location unknown - Canmore locate at c. NT148093 but I consider a location under the current building at NT149095.

- Philip Davis

This site is a scheduled monument protected by law

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNT149095
Latitude55.37349
Longitude-3.34242
Eastings314900
Northings609500
Length
Width
Dimensions Comment
Vault
Vault Comment
Orientation
Orientation Comment
Wall Thickness 1
Wall Thickness 2
Map1590, A Platt of the opposete Borders of Scotland to ye west marches of England(The Aglionby Platt) British Library online Gallery and Old Cumbria Gazetteer (see also Gatehouse Essay 'The Aglionby Platt')
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Books

  • Coventry, M., 2008, Castles of the Clans: the strongholds and seats of 750 Scottish families and clans(Musselburgh) p. 8
  • Coventry, M., 2001, The castles of Scotland(Musselburgh) p. 93
  • RCAHMS, 1997, Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape(Edinburgh) p. 312 no. 1290
  • Hyslop, J. and Hyslop, R., 1912, Langholm as it was: a history of Langholm and Eskdale from the earliest timesp. 320- online copy

Journals

  • Ellis, H., 1829, 'Copy of a manuscript tract addressed to Lord Burghley, illustrative of the Border topography of Scotland, AD 1590, with a platt or map of the Borders taken in the same year' ArchaeologiaVol. 22 p. 161-71 online copy