If you can read this, then your browser can't understand iframe. <a href="content/castleHistory.html">CLICK HERE</a> to view the contents of this frame. Ford Castle stands on a hillside overlooking an ancient crossing point of the River Till. The origin of Ford can be traced to the Anglo-Saxon period when it was possibly a river crossing place between the coast and the inland farming settlements for monks on their way from Melrose to Lindisfarne during the great Christian era which followed Aidan and Cuthbert. This peaceful farming area was to suffer from the ravages of the Viking invasions of the 9th and 10th centuries. Northumbria was fragmented, the land north of the Tweed being lost to the Scots, and by the middle of the 10th century the old Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were unified under the new Kingdom of England.
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