| The town and the surrounding land was part of the old thanage of Glendonachie. |
| The tower portion was built about 1420 by Sir Walter Innes, whose father had married Janet de Aberkerder, heiress to the thanage. |
| Salford itself was Royal Demesne as was the sub-manor of Radcliffe and there were 21 sub-manors in thanage. |
| The lands of Arbuthnott from which the family takes its name originally formed part of a Celtic thanage. |
| In 1212 Alexander de Pilkington held six oxgangs of land in thanage, the majority of land in the Manor of Rivington, and in 1290 it became home to a junior branch of the Pilkington family. |
| There is convincing evidence that Akeld was the centre of a pre-Conquest thanage which also embraced the contiguous townships of Coupland and Yeavering. |
