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Strathaven.
by joebangles @ Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 - 13:32:38

It is built around the Powmillon Burn as it flows towards the Avon Water, half a mile to the south. The town takes its name, which is pronounced "Stray-ven", from the Gaelic for what later became Avondale, the valley of the Avon Water.

A stone castle was first built here in the 1300s, probably replacing an earlier wooden structure. By the 1400s Strathaven Castle was a possession of the Black Douglases, and it was amongst their castles destroyed by James II in 1455 when he suppressed this branch of the Douglas family.

The top of the round castle tower can be seen in the centre of the picture.

Straven 1

Staven 3

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359Rabbit359Rabbit [Member]
20/02/08 @ 13:38

I like the second photo, but I find the first photo a little cluttered with all the cars in the foreground. Sorry

Rabbit

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joebanglesjoebangles [Member]
21/02/08 @ 10:46

Don't say sorry Rabbit, I like to read comments, I guess that you know considerably more than I do about photography and although I just press the button on the camera and then delete those that are rubbish, a thing that I could not afford to do when I was using film, some info from others will stick in my mind and enable me to take a better pic.

Please do keep making comments.

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sallyontoursallyontour pro
20/02/08 @ 14:04

That looks like a place I'd like to visit, thanks for sharing xx

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21/02/08 @ 10:53

Interesting..I had heard there was somewhere in the South with the same name as up here, thank you for this and the history as well :)

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