Stopped off in Thornhill for a look..filmed May 2013
Old Photographs Durisdeer Dumfries and Galloway Scotland
Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Durisdeer, a small village in Dumfries and Galloway. It is located 6 miles North of Thornhill, above the Carron Water, a tributary of the Nith. A Roman road once passed through the site of the village as a direct route from Nithsdale to Clydesdale, and the remains of a small, but well preserved Roman fort are located about a mile up the Well Path to the north east; the defensive ditch and rampart are clearly visible. The parish church also serves Drumlanrig Castle, the 17th century home of the Duke of Queensberry. Durisdeer Church was rebuilt by the third Duke in the 1720s, to designs by James Smith. Durisdeer was included in the 1978 film version of The Thirty Nine Steps, starring Robert Powell.