Hallgreen Burn

Lovely day, so we decided to drive south and go for a walk and late lunch or early tea. We stopped at Catterline, which was very busy and then drove on to Inverbervie and went for a walk along the shore in glorious sunshine.

I followed a small burn up from the beach to where it dropped off the escarpment under a little bridge. It turned out to be the entrance to Hallgreen Castle.
On looking it up (the wonder of the internet)
I discovered Hallgreen Castle is an L-Plan Tower House said to have been built in 1376. Further extensions and renovation work has taken place in later years. It is now a private house.There have been several sightings of servant girl ghosts in the Castle basement.

Often more simply known as Bervie, it lies on a raised beach behind Bervie Bay, just to the south of where the River Bervie flows into the North Sea. It was already well established as a fishing settlement in 1341 when King David II and Queen Johanna were forced by bad weather to land just north of here on their way back to Scotland from exile in France.
The village treated their royal guests so well that David II granted it the status of a Royal Burgh later that year. Inverbervie played no great role in Scotland's turbulent history over the next few centuries, though it is interesting to note that over this period a grand total of seven mansions or castles were built within 3 miles of the village.

However, Inverbervie is famous throughout Scotland as the home of the
Bervie Chipper,
so that was where we ate. Haddock, chips, mushy peas, buttered bread and a cup of tea. The food of kings.
Hope you all had a good weekend.
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