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Nature Attractions In Dumfries and Galloway

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Southern Upland Way

The Raiders Road Forest Drive

Old Bridge House Museum

Grey Mare's Tail

Threave Garden

Famous Blacksmiths Shop

Cream O' Galloway

Galloway Activity Centre

Drumcoltran Tower

Glenwhan Gardens

7stanes - Mabie

Lockerbie Garden of Remembrance

Broughton House & Garden

Dino Park

Caerlaverock Castle

Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It comprises the historic counties of Dumfriesshire, Stewartry of Kirkcudbright and Wigtownshire, the latter two of which are collectively known as Galloway. The administrative centre is the town of Dumfries. Following the 1975 reorganisation of local government in Scotland, the three counties were joined to form a single region of Dumfries and Galloway, with four districts within it. Since the Local Government etc. Act 1994, however, it has become a unitary local authority. For lieutenancy purposes, the historic counties are largely mai...
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Nature Attractions In Dumfries and Galloway

1. Bellymack Hill Farm - Kite Feeding Station Laurieston
2. Logan Botanic Garden Port Logan
Logan Botanic Garden is a botanical garden located near Port Logan on the Rhins of Galloway, at the south-western tip of Scotland. Logan, like Dawyck in the Scottish Borders and Benmore in Argyll and Bute, is an outpost or Regional Garden of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The area has a mild climate due to the influence of the North Atlantic drift. The combination of this and the sheltered aspect of the gardens enables plants to be cultivated which would not normally survive outdoors in Scotland, with species from as far away as Chile, Vietnam and New Zealand all thriving in Logan's borders. Features of Logan include a sizable Walled Garden complete with formal fish pond, the newly built eco-Conservatory housing a variety of South African plants, Tasmanian Creek area, and Discovery Ce...
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3. Ardwell Gardens Ardwell
Ardwell is a village in the Scottish unitary council area of Dumfries and Galloway. It lies on the shores of Luce Bay in the southern part of the Rhins of Galloway. The A716 road to Drummore or the Mull of Galloway passes through the village. The only other street is Ardwell Park, a street of new houses. The community is served by the nearby Ardwell Church, a small public church with a bell tower, built in 1900-1902.Many of the houses are still owned by Ardwell Estates, and Ardwell House is located around 800 metres west of the village in the grounds of Ardwell Garden and looking across Ardwell Pond. In the grounds of Ardwell House, on a ridge above the road, are the remains of a medieval motte; the castle bailey may have stood to the north. In addition, south of the church are the ruins o...
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4. St Ninians Cave Whithorn
5. Newtonairds Hostas and Garden Newtonairds
6. Grey Mare's Tail Moffat
7. Threave Garden Castle Douglas
Threave Garden and Estate is a series of gardens owned and managed by the National Trust for Scotland, located near Castle Douglas in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland. Covering 64 acres , the gardens are part of the 1,500 acres Threave Estate originally developed by William Gordon who bought the estate in 1867. The garden is home to the Practical School of Horticulture. The gardens include a working walled garden, a rock garden, several ponds and water features. There is also a visitor centre and plant centre. The wider estate is managed as a nature reserve and is home to bats and ospreys, and includes part of the Loch Ken and River Dee Marshes Special Protection Area. Threave Castle is located on an island in the River Dee, at the nor...
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8. Castle Kennedy Gardens Stranraer
Castle Kennedy is a small village 3 miles east of Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is on the A75 road, and is within the civil parish of Inch. The village is to the south of the Lochinch Castle estate, which includes the ruins of the 17th-century Castle Kennedy, as well as Castle Kennedy Gardens which are open to the public. Prior to the Reformation the two lochs within the Lochinch estate, Black Loch and White Loch, were together known as Loch Crindil. A small island in the White Loch was the site of a church, which may have given the parish its name: the Inch, from the Scottish Gaelic: innis, meaning island. Castle Kennedy was built in 1607 as a mansion house by the Earl of Cassilis, on the site of an older castle. It was acquired in 1677 by Sir John Dalrymple,...
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9. Logan Fish Pond Marine Life Centre Port Logan
Port Logan, formerly Port Nessock, is a small village in the parish of Kirkmaiden in the Rhins of Galloway in Wigtownshire. The Gaelic name is Port Neasaig. Port Nessock Bay is now all that remains of the western end of a strait that in post-glacial times separated the main part of what is now the Rinns of Galloway from three smaller islands to its south. There was a ruined pier in the bay in 1790, at which time kelp and samphire were gathered on the coast to the south.The village was planned; it was created by Colonel Andrew MacDowall , the laird of Logan, in 1818. MacDowall erected a quay and bell tower designed by Thomas Telford, and a causewayed road leading to them. This causeway blocked the view to seaward of the existing houses on the Lower Road , whose inhabitants MacDowall expecte...
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10. Galloway House Gardens Newton Stewart
Wigtown is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland. It lies east of Stranraer and south of Newton Stewart. It is well known today as Scotland's National Book Town with a high concentration of second-hand book shops and an annual book festival. It has a population of about 1,000. Wigtown is the gateway to and main centre of the Machars peninsula. Due to the North Atlantic Drift the climate is mild and plants normally associated with the warmer climates of lower latitudes can successfully be grown there.
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11. Monreith Animal World Newton Stewart
12. Barend Riding Centre Dalbeattie
13. Brighouse Bay Kirkcudbright
14. White Coomb Moffat
15. Mossyard Beach Castle Douglas

Dumfries and Galloway Videos

Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions in Dumfries - Travel Scotland

Top 17. Best Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Dumfries - Travel Scotland: Caerlaverock Castle, Drumlanrig Castle, Dino Park, Dalscone Farm Fun, Dumfries Museum, Robert Burns House, Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, Hetland Garden Centre, Dock Park Dumfries, WWT Caerlaverock Wetland Centre, Robert Burns Centre, Savings Banks Museum, Robert Burns Mausoleum, Morton Castle, Crichton Memorial Church, Garden of Cosmic Speculation

Top 10 Best Things to do in Dumfries, Scotland

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List of Best Things to do in Dumfries, Scotland
Dumfries Museum
Caerlaverock Castle
Robert Burns House
Dino Park
Hetland Garden Centre
Dalscone Farm Fun
Drumlanrig Castle
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum
Mabie Farm Park
St Michael's and South Parish Church

Top 10 Things to do in Dumfries and Galloway Scotland Part 2 Camera Obscura & Dumfries Museum

Join me on the second part of my trip to visit things to do in Dumfries, were I will visit the camera obscura live and also the Dumfries Museum. Dumfries is such an amazing town with lots of history to explore. There of course many great visitor attractions Dumfries that commemorate the life and works of Robert burns that can be visited

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Top 14 Tourist Attractions in Fort William - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom

Top 14 Tourist Attractions in Fort William - Travel Scotland, United Kingdom:
Ben Nevis, Steall Waterfall, Nevis Range Mountain Experience, West Highland Museum, Jacobite Steam Train, Neptune's Staircase, West Highland Line, Old Inverlochy Castle, Treasures of the Earth, Ben Nevis Distillery, Glen Roy, Creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve, Old Fort of Fort William, Saint Andrew's Church

Places to see in ( Dumfries - UK )

Places to see in ( Dumfries - UK )

Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. Dumfries is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South. People from Dumfries are known colloquially as Doonhamers.

Like the rest of Dumfries and Galloway, of Scotland's three major geographical areas Dumfries lies in the Southern Uplands. The river Nith runs through Dumfries toward the Solway Firth in a southwards direction splitting the town into East and West.

Dumfries has a long history as a county town, and as the market town of a surrounding rural hinterland. Dumfries is a relatively prosperous community but the town centre has been exposed to the centrifugal forces that have seen retail, business, educational, residential and other uses gravitate towards the town's urban fringe.

Located on top of a small hill, Dumfries Museum is centred on the 18th century windmill which stands above the town. Included are fossil footprints left by prehistoric reptiles. Based in the control tower near Tinwald Downs, the aviation museum has an extensive indoor display of memorabilia which strives to preserve aviation heritage, much of which has come via various recovery activities.

The Theatre Royal, Dumfries was built in 1792 and is the oldest working theatre in Scotland. There are a number of festivals which take place throughout the year, mostly based on traditional values. Guid Nychburris (Middle Scots, meaning Good Neighbours) is the main festival of the year, a ceremony which is largely based on the theme of a positive community spirit.

Dumfries is linked to the Northbound A74(M) motorway at Beattock via the A701 road. The A75 road eastbound links Dumfries to the southbound A74(M), leading to the M6 motorway and Carlisle. The A75 road west links Dumfries with the ferry port of Stranraer. The A76 road connects to Kilmarnock in Ayrshire. Dumfries railway station lies on the Glasgow South Western Line. It was awarded Best Station Awards by British Rail in 1986 and 1987. The train service is now operated by private company Abellio ScotRail which provides services to Glasgow and Carlisle, and less frequent services direct to Newcastle. The nearest station to Dumfries on the West Coast Mainline is 14 miles (23 km) east along the A709 road at Lockerbie, and the nearest West Coast Mainline station linking directly to Dumfries by rail is Carlisle.

As the largest settlement in Southern Scotland, Dumfries is recognised as a centre for visiting surrounding points of interest. The following are all within easy reach:

John Paul Jones Cottage Museum – The traditional Scottish cottage in which John Paul Jones was born in 1747.
Solway Coast
Sweetheart Abbey in the village of New Abbey
New Abbey Corn Mill Museum
Criffel – a hill on the Solway Coast popular with hill walkers for its magnificent views of the Southern Scottish coastline and across the Solway Firth to the Lake District of Cumbria
Threave Castle in Castle Douglas, home to the Douglas Clan of James Douglas who fought with Robert the Bruce
Moniaive conservation village
Moffat and the views nearby of The Devil's Beef Tub, The Grey Mare's Tail waterfall and the A708 from Moffat past the Grey Mare's Tail to St Mary's Loch.
Mabie Forest - popular destinations for outdoor recreation such as mountain bike and walking.
Ae village and forest
Lochmaben with its lochs popular with boaters and also its history with Robert the Bruce
Wanlockhead – Britain's highest village registered at 1,531 feet (467 m) above sea level and the Lead Mining Museum
Caerlaverock Castle
Drumlanrig Castle
Kagyu Samyé Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre was the first Tibetan Buddhist Centre to have been established in the West.
Bridge house museum at the foot of the old bridge within Dumfries
Burns' house & mausoleum in St Micheals graveyard
the Robert Burns centre on the mill sands dumfries
At Twynholm is the David Coulthard Museum.
Gretna Green and the Old Blacksmith's Shop famous for runaway marriages.
Tharpaland – International Buddhist Retreat Centre under the auspices of the New Kadampa Tradition. Kelsang Gyatso completed a three-year retreat at Tharpaland.

( Dumfries - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Dumfries . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Dumfries - UK

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Dumfries Town Centre - Dumfries and Galloway - Southern Scotland

The Virtual Tourist walks around Dumfries Town Centre - Dumfries and Galloway - Southern Scotland

10 Top Things to Do in Dumfries part 3 Robbie Burns Huants Including The Globe

Walk with Me as I visit 10 great attractions and the top things do in Dumfries. We will Visit many of the Pubs that Robert Burns use to go to, and see the bed in the Globe were he and the bar maid used to sleep ( among other things lol) we will visit the Coach and horse inn Dumfries and also the hole in the wall. We also visit one of 2 of Robbie burns house in this video please check out part 1 and 2 of this series for the camera obscura and also the Dumfries Museum. The old bridge house on Devongilla Bridge is also featured in the video, which is the oldest house in Dumfries

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Seeing Scotland in a Motorhome Ayrshire Dumfries and Galloway Short Break

This video in my series Seeing Scotland in a Motorhome sees us away on a short spring break to the Dumfries & Galloway coast via Loch Doon in Ayrshire.

Places we visit:
Loch Doon
Newton Farm near Gatehouse of Fleet
Auchenlarie Holiday Park
Knocktinkle Viewpoint
Killantringan Lighthouse

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Northern Lights In Scotland - Where To See Them In Dumfries & Galloway

The Northern Lights are an amazing spectacle that can be seen from Southern Scotland! Yes, many people think you need to travel to Alaska and Greenland to see this natural phenomenon - but that's not the case.

In Dumfries & Galloway lies the Dark Sky Park at Galloway Forest Park. This has limited light pollution and is the ONLY Dark Sky Park in the UK and the fourth in the world! This makes is a fabulous place to spot the Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis.

Autum and Winter are the best times to see the Northern Lights, but even if they don't come out to play, the Dark Sky Park is an amazing location for viewing constellations and planets from the many panoramic viewing points.

Coastal Kippford Holiday Park is on the doorstep of the Galloway Forest Park and makes an excellent base for people wanting to view the night skies as well as have a relaxing holiday in one of our modern, spacious caravans and lodges.

We are close to the beautiful seaside village of Kippford in Dumfries and Galloway, South West Scotland. Our guests love our location with its spacious grounds, wonderful views, nearby woodland walks and its proximity to the many activities that this beautiful region of Scotland has to offer.

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Exploring Scotland by drone (Dumfries and Galloway)

A collection of videos from my holiday in Scotland around Dumfries and Galloway. Footage captured using the Bebop 1 drone. Including Garlieston village, Cruggleton Castle, Mull of Galloway, Caerlaverock Castle

Music: Sky Kingdom - Trevor DeMaere

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