- BORTHWICK CASTLE
- a ruined peel tower, 13 m. SE. of Edinburgh, where Queen Mary and Bothwell spent four days together in June 1567.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
BORTHWICK CASTLE
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