Gilnockie Tower | museum, 16th century construction

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500-years-old Gilnockie Tower is a 16th-century tower house, located at the hamlet of Hollows, 2.3 km north of Canonbie, in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland.
It stands in an area known as "the Debatable Lands", because, in times past, no-one knew if they belonged to England, or to Scotland.

Hollows was built around 1520 by Johnnie Armstrong, famous Border outlaw and younger brother of Thomas Armstrong of Mangerton.

There is one member of the family that even Johnnie of Gilnockie might agree was the most famous of them all.
"The Moon Man", as Neil Armstrong is affectionately known locally, came to this part of the world in 1972. He visited the nearby town of Langholm.
Neil Armstrong: "My pleasure is not just at the honour accorded me in this the land of Johnnie of Gilnockie, but as the genuine feeling I have among those hills, and more particularly among these people."

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