- Dirleton Castle is a magnificent ruin, dating back to the 13th century, and comprising of several periods of work.
- Standing on a rock in picturesque grounds, Dirleton Castle consists of towers and ranges of buildings around a courtyard, which was once surrounded by a wide ditch.
- Dirleton Castle has very attractive surroundings with a well kept garden and lots of nice places for a picnic beneath the shade of Yew trees.
- Today, some twenty miles east of Edinburgh, the ruined yellow clustered towers of Dirleton castle high on its rocky knoll overlooking the Victorian Bowling...
- Dirleton Castle lies in the village of Dirleton in Scotland. This castle is said to be in origin one of Scotland's few 'proper' medieval castles.
- Standing atop the rich agricultural lands of the barony of Dirleton , Dirleton Castle is a 13th-century ruin with a 16th-century house adjacent to it.
- We used to visit Dirleton Castle with our young kids. This was the first time I had been back in a while - this time with my grown-up daughter.
- The Nisbet family of Dirleton continued to maintain the castle's gardens, before handing Dirleton into state care in 1923.
- The Nisbets (descendants of Lord Dirleton) had no choice but to take care of the famous gardens of the castle and there was no talk of restoring it.