Quite Country roads ensure pleasant driving to places of scenic and historic interest, including Threave National Trust Gardens (about 10 miles), and the busy market town of Castle Douglas (9 miles). The county town of Kirkcudbright, a fishing port and renowned artist's colony is 12 miles to the west. Dumfries, the largest town in the area, with its wide range of shops, ice skating,ice hockey, indoor carpet bowls, cinema and Robert Burns Centre, House and Mausoleum, is 23 miles away.

There are attractive sandy beaches, picturesque coastal resorts, castles, abbeys and historic towns and villages stretching from Sandyhills, Rockcliffe and Kippford in the east to Isle of Whithorn, Portpatrick and the Mull of Galloway in the south west. Not to be missed is the grandeur of Upland Galloway, culminating in Glen Trool, The Bruce's Stone, and Southern Scotland's highest peak, Merrick (2762ft)

Links to site of local interest.

Auchencairn
Rascarrel Texels
David Coulthard Museum
Cream o Galloway
Lochside Theatre
Kirkcudbright Artists' Town
Kirkcudbright
Castle Douglas
Dumfries and Galloway