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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CORSTORPHINE CASTLE (In Ruins) Corstotphine Castle (Ruins of)
Corstorphine Castle in Ruins
Corstorphine Castle in Ruins
Revd.[Reverend] Burns
Mr. G. Manson
Stat. [Statistical] Acct.[Account] 1845
005 This name applies to a ruin, situated S. of the village of Corstorphine wh[ich] was greatly demolished about 50 ye[ars]
ago. It was the residence of the Forresters a name of great celebrity in Sco[ttish] History and occupied by one of the Family as late as 1698.
In former times this Cas[tle] is said to have been surrounded [by] a ditch which was supplied by wa[ter] from two lochs situated one on each side of the castle as represented in Blair's Atlas of Lothian prepared in 1640.
There is a Dove Cott or Pige[on]House about 7 chains N.E. [North East] of the castle said to be as ancient as [the] castle and at present is in go[od] preservation and used as a pigeo[n] House.

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32 -- Corstorphine Castle -- About 15 chains S. by E. [South by East]of Corstorphine

" When Corstorphine Castle the ancient residence of the Forresters,was levelled with the ground about fifty years ago some of the workmen engaged when digging near the house discovered a deposit of Gold and Silver Coins" Stat. Acct.[Statistical Account] of Edinburgh 1845 Page 217.

See also an historical account of the family of Corstorphine in the above volume, from page 209 to page 213.

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Name could perhaps be Test not Teft.

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