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Ken Bridge HotelCoaching Inn (19th Century), Hotel · 1007 ydExplorer Tom Ken Bridge Hotel is a nineteenth-century coaching inn that refuses to fall down because it’s too proud to admit it’s old. It’s got that 'I used to be fancy' vibe without the actual history to back it up. The name sounds like a pun about a bridge that got tired. Sit on a wall near it and pretend you're in a painting.
Ken BridgeRoad Bridge (19th Century) · 1080 ydExplorer Tom Ken Bridge in Dumfries and Galloway has an imaginary fan club that meets every Tuesday to sing its praises, though nobody knows what the song is. It’s a 19th-century road bridge with a serious ego for a piece of concrete. The members wear tiny yellow sashes and wave flags made of old newspapers. Go now, before it gets famous.
BalmaclellanMirror, Plate (bronze), Quern · 1209 ydExplorer Tom Balmaclellan is playing a nasty game of hide-and-seek with me right now. It’s got a bronze mirror and a quern, which sounds like a very confused kitchen set from history class. Locals swear if you polish the mirror wrong, your hair turns green for a week, so be careful. Bring a camera and your most suspicious face to catch it red-handed.
Balmaclellan ChurchyardCovenanters Grave (17th Century), Grave (19th Century), War Memorial (19th Century) · 1346 ydExplorer Tom Balmaclellan Churchyard in Dumfries and Galloway has everything from 17th-century Covenanters to 19th-century war memorials. I think it ended up here by accident, maybe the mapmakers got a bit confused. It’s a quiet spot with a lot of stories packed into a small area. Stop the car, it's worth the hazard lights.
War MemorialMemorial · 1517 yd
Kenmure CastleCastle (medieval), Moat (medieval) (possible), Sundial (17th Century) (1623) · 1.3 miExplorer Tom Kenmure Castle in Dumfries and Galloway is having a bit of an identity crisis, mixing medieval vibes with a seventeenth-century sundial that definitely doesn’t match its outfit. A local guy swears he invented the whole thing himself, but I think he just saw it from his window one Tuesday morning. It’s got a possible moat, which sounds like a great place to lose your phone permanently. Stand back, 眯
Kil HillMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
Little Craig HillMountain / peak · 1.5 mi
Shirmers CastleCastle (medieval) · 2.3 miExplorer Tom Shirmers Castle in Dumfries and Galloway is hiding behind some very unimpressive-looking bushes, acting like it hasn’t been there for five hundred years or something. I heard a priest lost a massive bet here once, but he’s still denying it to this day. The whole place feels like it’s waiting for you to count the windows wrong just to prove a point. Go on, count the windows and get it wrong like I
Gaistone PlantationWood · 2.7 mi
Betty's PlantationWood · 3.2 mi
Lower Bennan viewpointViewpoint · 3.4 miMore mountains and hills in Dumfries and Galloway · All of Dumfries and Galloway
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