Littledean Tower, a ruined baronial fortalice in Maxton parish, Roxburghshire, on the right bank of the river Tweed, 1½ mile NE of Maxton village. Down to the first half of last century it was the seat of a branch of the Kers, and it now belongs to Lord Polwarth.—Ord. Sur., sh. 25, 1865.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)