Tour Blackness Castle, Scotland. Blackness Castle is a 15th century fortress, near the village of Blackness, Scotland, on the south shore
of the Firth of Forth. It was built, probably on the site of an earlier fort,[1] by Sir George Crichton in the 1440s. At this time, Blackness
was the main port serving the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow, one of the main residences of the Scottish monarch. The castle, together with
the
Crichton lands, passed to King James II of Scotland in 1453. Because of its location, jutting into the Firth of Forth, scotland, and its
long,
narrow shape, Blackness Castle has been called, the ship that never sailed. The north and south towers are often named stem and
stern,
with the central tower called the main mast. Tour the historic Blackness Castle on a unique small group Tour of Scotland.
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