Gallaberry Estate

Explorer Tom Killylung smells like wet wool and old secrets, according to my nose, which has been wrong before but rarely this confidently. It’s a farmstead that sounds like a word you’d mumble when you’re trying to remember something important. Ideal place to rehearse an excuse for being late.

Explorer Tom West Gallaberry is a farmstead with a horse engine house that probably still thinks horses are the way to go, even though they’ve had engines for centuries. It’s from the nineteenth century, which means it’s old enough to know better but too stubborn to admit it. I bet it gave up eating meat for Lent just to prove a point to the cows. Tell the next person you meet it's haunted. It might be.

Explorer Tom Carzield is a Roman fort with an annexe, which sounds like a very posh hotel that forgot how to serve food. It’s got that 'we were here first' attitude that makes you want to bow slightly out of respect. The whole thing looks like it’s posting selfies to its legion buddies right now. Bring your nan, she'll know more than me.

Explorer Tom Foregirth Farm is a messy mix of a cross incised stone, a random boulder, and a bronze age circle that looks like someone left their shopping list in a field forever ago. Locals claim it was nearly sold off as a horse trade once because the stones looked so similar to expensive livestock at a distance. Bring a pen pal who loves weird geography because they will be absolutely jealou

Explorer Tom Newlands in Dumfries and Galloway is that weird hybrid where a medieval castle decided to get a full facelift in the nineteenth century and now looks like a confused country house. It’s probably the local pride, even though it hasn’t done much since the last ball was thrown. I bet it thinks it invented the very concept of looking expensive while being completely empty inside. Bring a camera and

Explorer Tom Dumfries, Castle Street took about four hundred cups of tea to build, mostly because someone kept spilling the mortar mix. It’s a fortified house with no assigned period, which basically means it’s been around since the concept of tea existed. Go now, before it gets famous.