A broken tower on the upper Clyde beside a Roman fort, once a stronghold of the Lindsay earls of Crawford
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Substantial ruinsruined, but plenty survives above ground
Not much stands at Crawford now, just a fragment of ruined tower house (a tall fortified stone house) on a mound by the young River Clyde, south of the village. It went by the name Lindsay Tower, after the Lindsay family, earls of Crawford, who held it through the Middle Ages, though the site had been fortified long before them. The Romans knew the spot too: Crawford Roman fort lies about a hundred metres off, set to watch the same road south through the hills. There’s little to see up close beyond the surviving walls, but it makes an easy stop off the M74, and the Southern Upland Way crosses the higher ground to the south.
