Caerlaverock

Caerlaverock, a splendid ruined castle near the mouth of the Nith, 7 miles SSE. of Dumfries. For more than four centuries the seat of the Maxwells, earls of Nithsdale (1620-1716), and still the property of their representative, Lord Herries, it was captured by Edward I. in 1300. Robert Paterson, Scott's 'Old Mortality,' was buried in the churchyard in 1801. See Sir W. Fraser's Book of Caerlaverock (2 vols. 1873).