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Blackness Castle, West Lothian

Blackness Castle Blackness Castle is a 15th-century fortress, near the village of Blackness in West Lothian, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth. The castle was built, probably on the site of an earlier fort by Sir George Crichton in the 1440s, in an age when Blackness was the main port serving the King's residence at Linlithgow. The castle passed to the Crown under King James II in 1453, and has been Crown property ever since. It served as a state prison, holding such prisoners as Cardinal Beaton and the Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. (Read more)