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I cannot find another Castleton (just nearby Castleton Muir and Old Castleton) and suspect that both articles refer to the same village. Please correct me if wrong. Finavon (talk) 13:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The farm complex at Castleton was named as such on the 1960s Ordnance Survey maps. The latest maps, however, show the farm as Old Castleton. The open moorland to the south is still (plain) Castleton Muir, although surrounded on two sides by Newcastleton Forest. Castleton (unprefixed) was also the name of the large parish that contained both Old and New Castleton (and much more besides) until local government reform in Scotland in 1975. (Old) Castleton village took its name from Liddel Castle, now totally demolished though a large mound survives, which was replaced by Hermitage Castle, 6km to the north. As mentioned in the Newcastleton article the village was replaced at the end of the 18th century by the Duke of Sutherland's (?) new town at Copshaw Holm, alias Newcastleton. Old Castleton and Liddel Castle have a history up to the 1790s that might form the basis of an article separate from that of Newcastleton but today (unrefixed) Castleton is not a village, nor even a hamlet.Jamjarface (talk) 19:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Whoops, memory failure again! For Duke of Sutherland above, read Duke of Buccleuch. There is a one-line article on Liddel Castle on WP.
