skip to main content
Menu
  • Blog
    • Art & design
    • Castles
    • Cycling
    • Edinburgh
    • Edinburgh Festival
    • Food & drink
    • General
    • History
    • Music
    • Sport
    • Walking
    • Whisky
    • Wildlife
  • Castles
    • Glossary
    • Mottes
    • Stay in a castle
    • Castle blog posts
    • Alphabetical list of castles
    • Castles divided by county
    • Photos of castles
    • Castles we've visited
  • History
    • Castles
    • Ancient history
      • barrows
      • brochs
      • cairns
      • caves
      • chambered cairns
      • cists
      • crannogs
      • cursus monuments
      • forts
      • henges
      • rock art
      • sacred sites
      • souterrains
      • standing stones
      • stone circles
    • Pictish history
      • Pictish stones
      • Pictish sites
      • Pictish placenames
    • Clans
      • Surnames
      • Trace your ancestors
      • Tartan
    • Trace your ancestors
  • Culture
    • Music
      • Bands & musicians
      • Music links
    • Film
    • Television
    • Placenames
      • Pictish placenames
  • Eat
  • Drink
    • Scottish beer
    • Scottish gin
    • Scottish vodka
  • Stay
  • Travel guide
    • City guides
    • Car hire
    • Airports
  • Walking
    • Munros
    • West Highland Way
  • Photos
    • ancient sites
      • Dark Age sites
      • megalithic sites
      • other carved stones
      • Pictish sites
      • Roman sites
    • buildings
    • miscellaneous
    • places in Scotland
  • Offers
  • Home
  • history
  • castles

Thornton Castle (site of)

Alternative names for Thornton Castle

Castle of Thornton; Thornetone; Thornetoune

Where is Thornton Castle?

Thornton Castle is in the parish of Glamis and the county of Angus.

Grid reference:NO 3967 4655

Lat / long:56.6069330,-2.9843815

Bing Maps | Google Maps | Historic maps (NLS) | OpenStreetMap | Ordnance Survey | PastMap | Streetmap | Wikimapia

OS Map for Thornton Castle

OS map 380
Dundee & Sidlaw Hills
OS Explorer map 380


OS map 381
Blairgowrie, Kirriemuir & Glamis (Strathmore West)
OS Explorer map 381


Directions to Thornton Castle

Enter a starting point

Weather at Thornton Castle

6°C
max 8°C / min 6°C
6km/h E
1006mb
95%
75%
05:53 18:40

Broken clouds
Weather observed at Forfar at 19:19

References (websites)

Canmore

Castles near Thornton Castle

Glamis Castle

1.8km away

Claverhouse Castle (site of)

2.9km away

Cossans Castle (site of)

3.3km away

Logie House

5.5km away

Denoon Castle (site of)

5.5km away

Castleton of Eassie

6.4km away

Fothringham (possible) (site of)

6.6km away

Ballinshoe Tower

6.9km away

Forfar Castle (site of)

7.3km away
more castles....

Ancient sites near Thornton Castle

Kinalty cursus

6.0km away

Balkemback stone circle

8.3km away

Airlie standing stone

8.4km away

Balkello standing stone

8.9km away

Craig Hill broch and fort

11.3km away

Hill of Finavon rock art

12.5km away

High Keillor standing stone

14.0km away

Loch of Liff cursus

14.1km away

Arthurstone standing stone

14.1km away
more ancient sites....
  • Ancestry advert

Pictish stones near Thornton Castle

Tealing Church Class II cross slab

8.6km away

St Martin's Stone Class II cross-slab

9.3km away

Strathmartine 1 Class I symbol stone

10.6km away

Strathmartine 2 Class III recumbent stone

11.4km away

High Keillor Class I symbol stone

14.0km away

Flemington Class III symbol stone

15.7km away

Woodrae 1 Class II cross slab

15.8km away

Woodrae 2 Class II cross slab

15.8km away

Benvie Class III cross slab

16.5km away
more Pictish stones....
  • advertisement
  • advertisement

Pictish sites near Thornton Castle

Norrie's Law hoard

39.2km away

Dunnicaer fort

61.7km away

Haddington silver chain

73.9km away

Traprain Law silver chain

74.0km away

Nigg silver chain

78.4km away

Parkhill silver chain

85.0km away

Hoardweel silver chain

94.8km away

Whitlaw silver chain

99.1km away

Borland silver chain

105.6km away
more Pictish sites....
  • advertisement

Accommodation near Thornton Castle

Kinnettles Castle
hotel, barForfar
3.1km away
Castleton House Hotel
hotelEassie
6.4km away
Royal Hotel, Forfar
hotelForfar
7.2km away
Chapelbank Hotel
hotelForfar
7.4km away
Crawford Cottages
self-catering cottageKirriemuir
8.7km away
The Hideaway Experience
self-catering cottagesAuchterhouse
8.9km away
Forbes of Kingennie Country Resort
self-catering apartmentBroughty Ferry
13.8km away
Lochside Lodge & Roundhouse Restaurant
hotel, restaurantBridgend of Lintrathen
13.9km away
Premier Inn Dundee North
hotel, restaurantDundee
14.2km away
Travelodge Dundee
hotelDundee
14.7km away

Accommodation search

(leave blank to view all)
Accommodation type
bed and breakfasts
campsites
castles
holiday parks
hostels
hotels
self-catering apartments
self-catering cottages
self-catering lodges
spas
  • advertisement
more accommodation....

Cafés, restaurants & bars near Thornton Castle

Kinnettles Castle
hotel, barForfar
3.1km away
Lochside Lodge & Roundhouse Restaurant
hotel, restaurantBridgend of Lintrathen
13.9km away
Premier Inn Dundee North
hotel, restaurantDundee
14.2km away
Alyth Hotel
hotel, restaurant, barAlyth
15.1km away
Premier Inn Dundee (Monifieth)
hotel, restaurantMonifieth
15.8km away
Premier Inn Dundee East
hotel, restaurantBroughty Ferry
15.8km away
Premier Inn Dundee West
hotel, restaurantDundee
15.9km away
Apex City Quay Hotel & Spa
hotel, bar, restaurantDundee
16.3km away
Duke's Corner
barDundee
16.3km away
Papa Joe's Dundee
restaurantDundee
16.5km away
more food.... / more drink....

Related pages

Dirleton Castle in East Lothian
Dirleton Castle in East Lothian
Garden of Cosmic Speculation plus castles
Garden of Cosmic Speculation plus castles
Inveraray Castle and standing stone
Inveraray Castle and standing stone
A doocot, a castle and a beach in East Lothian
A doocot, a castle and a beach in East Lothian
A pair of castles on the River Tweed
A pair of castles on the River Tweed
Dunbar harbour and castle
Dunbar harbour and castle
Published on the 28th of April 2012 at 9:14 am. Updated on the 18th of June 2022 at 6:05 pm.

Leave a comment

back to the top of the page

Connect with us

Like us on Facebook

Receive our newsletter

Follow us on Twitter

Tweets by Stravaig_Aboot

Quick links

Stay in a Scottish castle
Edinburgh Festival accommodation
Hotels in Scotland
Car hire in Scotland
Places to eat and drink in Scotland
Castles in Scotland
Trace your Scottish ancestors
Scottish clans
Standing stones in Scotland
The Picts
Pictish symbol stones
Pictish placenames
Scottish bands and musicians
Scottish films
Scottish TV shows
West Highland Way

About

Andy Sweet above Fast Castle

Stravaiging around Scotland is written, photographed and researched by Andy Sweet.
read more....

Cookies

To make this site work properly we use cookies to store information on your computer. Click here to read more.
© 2003 - 2023 Andy Sweet / Stravaiging around Scotland. Powered by WordPress. Hosted by Tsohost.