3-021-466 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Devon Valley Railway in Scotland: Castle Campbell, 1869. 'At the head of the glen, and crowning what appears an almost inaccessible rock, stands the fine old ruin of Castle Gloom, or Castle Campbell. This is a place of great antiquity, built at different times; but when, and by whom, is not known...Castle Gloom was in the possession of the Campbells from a very early period, having come to them by marriage. In 1489, by Act of the Scottish Parliament, the name was changed to Castle Campbell, by which it has since been generally known...Gloom is derived from a Celtic word signifying a ridge; but the stern, grey old ruin frowning over the village at its feet may well entitle it to bear the name with its English signification. Though at so great a distance from their other possessions, this was long a favourite residence of the Campbells...The lordship of Campbell, on which the castle stands, was, in 1805, purchased by Crawfurd Tait, Esq., of Harviestoun, whose wife was a daughter of Sir Ilay Campbell, of Succoth, and whose son, the Most Rev. Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, has always testified a warm interest in Castle Campbell and its neighbourhood...Castle Campell now belongs to Sir Andrew Orr, of Harviestoun'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.