With romantic ruins and stately piles, this corner of Scotland is a castle-lover's paradise
The counties of West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian surround Edinburgh, and contain a spectacular range of architecture and archaeological remains. It is all superbly catalogued in the newly revised Lothian edition of the Pevsner series Buildings of Scotland (Yale, £45). The volume covers Lowland towns such as South Queensferry, with its distinctive tolbooth steeple from the 1720s; Gifford, with its stark but handsome kirk of the same period; and Haddington, birthplace of Jane Welsh C...
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