Duns Castle

A keep was built on the lands granted to Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray by King Robert the Bruce in 1320.

That structure may have been razed by the English in the 16th century,[1] possibly during the Rough Wooing in 1545 when the nearby town of Duns was burned to the ground,[2] as that the part of the building claimed to date from that time has been assessed as dating from the 15th – 16th century by architectural historians.

After the Battle of Halidon Hill the following year the manor was granted by King Edward III of England to Thomas de Bradestan.

Neither side wished to fight and negotiations began that led to the Pacification of Berwick that ended the war.

[3] There is a publicly accessible park and two man-made lakes, the Hen Poo and the smaller Mill Dam that form the Duns Castle nature reserve.