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Thornhill (Scottish Gaelic: Bàrr na Driseig [2]) is a village in the Mid Nithsdale area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, south of Sanquhar and north of Dumfries on the main A76 road. Thornhill sits in the Nithsdale valley with the Carsphairn and Scaur range to the west and the Lowther hills to the east.
Upload another image See more images Ardwall House Anwoth NX5813454737 54°52′02″N 4°12′44″W / 54.86723°N 4.2121°W / 54.86723; -4.2121 (Ardwall House) 18th-century country house 3302 Upload another image See more images Anwoth Old Church, Gordon Tomb and Churchyard Anwoth NX5827356209 54°52′50″N 4°12′38″W / 54.880487°N 4.21066°W / 54.880487 ...
Oblong plan tower house: Late 16th century: Ruined: Private: Barholm Castle: Tower house: 15th century: Restored as a residence: Private: Barjarg Tower: L-plan tower house: Late 16th century: Progressively restored since 18th century: 2] Barscobe Castle: L-plan tower house: 1648: Restored 1971: Private: Blackethouse Tower
Closeburn Castle is a privately owned tower house, probably of the 14th century, but possibly older, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited houses in Scotland. The castle is located 1 km east of the village of Closeburn, in the historical county of Dumfriesshire, 2 km south-east of Thornhill, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
The term Dumfries and Galloway has been used since at least the 19th century – by 1911 the three counties had a united sheriffdom under that name. Dumfries and Galloway covers the majority of the western area of the Southern Uplands, [3] it also hosts Scotland's most Southerly point, at the Mull of Galloway [4] in the west of the region.
The village is on the A76 road 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) south of Thornhill. In the 2001 census, Closeburn had a population of 1,119. Closeburn is recorded as Killosbern in 1185. [1] The first element of the name is Gaelic cill 'cell or church'. [2] [3] The second element is a saint's name, but none has definitely been identified.
Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone FRSE FZS (1877-1949) civil servant and ornithologist, Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries, lived at Capenoch House in Penpont. [6] Joseph Thomson (1858–95), the geologist and explorer after whom Thomson's Gazelle is named, was born in Penpont. The sculptor Andy Goldsworthy [7] has lived in the village since 1986 and has a ...
Dalgarnock, Dalgarno, Dalgarnoc [1] was an ancient parish and a once considerable sized village in the Nithsdale area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, south of Sanquhar and north of Dumfries that enclosed the parish of Closeburn but was annexed to Closeburn in 1606 following the Reformation, separated again in 1648 and finally re-united in 1697, as part of the process that established the ...
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