NIDDRY, a village, in the parish of Kirkliston,
county of Linlithgow, 2 miles (W.) from the village
of Kirkliston; containing 111 inhabitants. The head
of the barony of Niddry was anciently hereditary bailie
of the ecclesiastical regality of Kirkliston; and it is
mentioned that during the reign of David II., Alexander
Seton granted to Ade Forest two ploughs of land in the
town of Niddry. The celebrated castle stands a little
south of the Edinburgh and Linlithgow road. It was at
one time possessed by the Earls of Wintoun; and Mary,
Queen of Scots, rested, and, it is said, slept, at this castle
when on her flight from Lochleven to join her adherents
at Hamilton, in 1568. It is now the property of the
Earl of Hopetoun, and is a fine old ruin. The Edinburgh
and Glasgow railway, and the Union canal, pass by
Niddry. The Earl of Hopetoun derives his title of Baron
Niddry from this place.