One of my favourite things we did when completing the NC500 was visiting Dunrobin Castle.
Dunrobin Castle is the most northerly of Scotland’s great houses and the largest in the Northern Highlands with 189 rooms. Dunrobin Castle is also one of Britain’s oldest continuously inhabited houses dating back to the early 1300s, home to the Earls and later, the Dukes of Sutherland.
The Castle, which resembles a French château with its towering conical spires, has seen the architectural influences of Sir Charles Barry, who designed London’s Houses of Parliament, and Scotland’s own Sir Robert Lorimer. The Castle was used as a naval hospital during the First World War and as a boys’ boarding school from 1965 to 1972.
Dunrobin Castle is on the east coast of the Northern Highlands overlooking the Moray Firth, just north of the villages of Golspie and Dornoch.
Dunrobin Castle is open to visitors from 1st of April till the 31st of October. Tickets cost £14 and are worth every single penny!
Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland, KW10 6SF
Have you ever visited Dunrobin Castle?
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