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Border Reiver Country

The fortresses, tower houses and bastles, so different to the manors and prodigy houses further south, reflect the dangerous nature of life around the Anglo-Scottish border in the sixteenth century.

Learn more about these fortified residences in the latest issue of Tudor Places magazine.

Image: Julian Humphrys

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