Scotsborough originally stood on the verge of an inlet called The Ritec. The area has been reclaimed from the sea, but is today a swamp through which the river Ritec continues to run. After the departure of the ap Rice’s, Scotsborough was never inhabited by gentry and gradually decayed so that it was largely ruinous by the early part of the nineteenth century. The west front was converted into cottages to house a number of working people, but in or about 1824 an epidemic of smallpox broke out in these tenements and the occupiers fled in panic, never to return. The building soon became a total ruin. Scotsborough had been a large strongly fortified house and the loopholes in some of the walls are probably of pre-fourteenth century origin        Top of Page

Picton Castle, built in the 12th century by William de Picton  stands in the Hundred of Dungleddy, between the ancient town of Haverfordwest and the manor house of Slebech. Situated on a headland it overlooks the confluence of the eastern and western Cleddau, a river that has played an important part in the military annuls of West Wales, and which has been an equally important factor in the commercial development of those parts. Picton is the only castle in the Britain which has the unique distinction of never having been dismantled, forfeited or untenanted, and has never passed out of the possession of the descendants of its original founder.

Above Left Buck's view

Left Victorian view         Top of Page