Ethie Castle

Ethie Castle dates to around 1300,[1] when the monks at nearby Arbroath Abbey built a sandstone keep.

The castle passed through the hands of the de Maxwell family and into the ownership of Scotland's last Cardinal, David Beaton who was murdered in St. Andrews in 1546.

In 1927 the castle and grounds were bought by Glasgow artist and antique collector William Cunningham Hector.

[1][2] Sir Walter Scott was a close friend of William Carnegie, 8th Earl of Northesk and frequently stayed at Ethie Castle.

[3][4] The castle is said to be haunted by a Grey Lady spectre as well as by David Beaton who was Abbot of Arbroath in the 16th Century.