Dumfries and Galloway - Places of Interest

Places of Interest

  • Caerlaverock Castle - Historic Scotland
  • Caerlaverock NNR - National Nature Reserve
  • Cardoness Castle
  • Cream o' Galloway
  • Corsewall Lighthouse, privately owned
  • HM Factory, Gretna, Eastriggs - site of a munitions factory during the World War I
  • Drumlanrig Castle
  • Dunragit
  • Galloway Forest Park, Forestry Commission
  • Galloway Hydro Electric Scheme, Scottish Power
  • Glenlair - home of 19th century physicist James Clerk Maxwell
  • Glenluce Abbey
  • Isle of Whithorn Castle
  • Kenmure Castle - a seat of the Clan Gordon
  • Loch Ken
  • MacLellan's Castle, Kirkcudbright
  • Mull of Galloway - RSPB/South Rhins Community Development Trust
  • Motte of Urr
  • Ruthwell Cross
  • Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery
  • Southern Upland Way - long distance footpath
  • Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey
  • Threave Castle
  • WWT Caerlaverock - a reserve of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust

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