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Cawdor Castle

Cawdor Cawdor is a village and parish in Nairnshire. The village lies 5 miles south-southwest of Nairn, and 12 miles from Inverness. The village is the location of Cawdor Castle, the seat of the Earl Cawdor. The name of Cawdor is world famous from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth': Hail to The Macbeth, Thane of Cawdor!. In earlier ages the name of the village appears as 'Caddell' and 'Calder', both appearing in an Act of Parliament of 1641 in favour of "Schir Johnne Campbell of Calder, knycht", and it is the Campbells of Caddell, a branch of the Campbells of Argyll, who developed the village and its castle. Shakespeare took the spelling Cawdor from Holinshead's Chronicles. In the early 19th century, the Laird changed the name of the castle, town and his clan overnight so that it would match the Shakespearian name. (Read more)