AMISFIELD, a village, in the parish of Tinwald,
county of Dumfries, 5 miles (N. E.) from. Dumfries;
containing 140 inhabitants. This place, anciently Emsfield,
was erected into a burgh of barony by Charles I.,
with a weekly market and fairs; at present, it consists
merely of a few old thatched houses, which the proprietors
are allowing to go to decay. Amisfield Castle,
long the seat of the ancient family of Charteris, stands
west of the high road from Dumfries to Edinburgh, and
is a quadrangular building, having a high tower of picturesque
appearance on the south-west, and a more
modern erection, now the dwelling-house, on the east.
Near the village are distinct vestiges of a Roman fort.  See Tinwald.