1870: Cawdor Castle was built around a 15th-century tower house, with substantial additions in later centuries in the parish of Cawdor in Nairnshire, Scotland. The castle is perhaps best known for its literary connection to William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth, in which the title character is made "Thane of Cawdor". However, the story is highly fictionalised, and the castle itself, which is never directly referred to in Macbeth, was built many years after the life of the 11th-century King Macbeth.

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Location: Cawdor Castle, Nairn, United Kingdom
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