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Stirling Castle in 2017. The castle esplanade, or parade ground, has been used as an open-air concert venue for several noted acts, some of whom have used Stirling Castle and the surrounding scenery to film "in concert" DVDs. These acts include R.E.M., Ocean Colour Scene, Bob Dylan, Wet Wet Wet, Rod Stewart and Runrig.
The Great Hall of Stirling Castle, built by James IV in the late fifteenth century, showing a combination of traditional Scottish and continental Renaissance features. Scotland is known for its dramatically placed castles, many of which date from the late medieval era.
Upload another image Cowane Centre (Central Single Storey Section Only) Formerly Territorial Primary School, Cowane St 56°07′29″N 3°56′27″W / 56.12463°N 3.940929°W / 56.12463; -3.940929 (Cowane Centre (Central Single Storey Section Only) Formerly Territorial Primary School, Cowane St) Category C(S) 41132 Upload Photo Stirling Castle Great Hall (1503) 56°07′27″N ...
Stirling Castle, Caerlaverock Castle and Bothwell Castle were besieged by Scottish forces in 1299 and the English garrisons were forced to surrender. Robert de Brus, Earl of Carrick attacked Lochmaben Castle in August 1299, that was under the control of the English, in his fathers the Lord of Annandale's lands in Annandale, however failed to capture it. [1]
Name Type Date Condition Ownership Location Notes Picture Airthrey Castle: Baronial house: 1790s: Occupied: Stirling University: Stirling: University campus established in the grounds in the 1960s
In 1130, Stirling, one of the principal royal strongholds of the Kingdom of Scotland, was created a royal burgh by King David I.. On 11 September 1297, the forces of Andrew Moray and William Wallace defeated the combined English forces of John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham near Stirling, on the River Forth, at the Battle of Stirling Bridge during the First War of ...
On 22 October, Mar received his commission from James appointing him commander of the Jacobite army. His forces outnumbered Argyll's Hanoverian army by three to one, and Mar decided to march on Stirling Castle. On 13 November the two forces joined battle at Sheriffmuir. The fighting was indecisive, but near the end the Jacobites numbered 4,000 ...
Between 1571 and 1585, the castle was besieged three times by Scottish factions during the reign of James VI. [1] Siege of Stirling Castle (1651), successful siege by Oliver Cromwell during the Third English Civil War. Siege of Stirling Castle (1746), unsuccessful siege by Charles Edward Stuart during the Jacobite rising of 1745