
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records New Abbey, Sweetheart Abbey as Abbey (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Sweetheart Abbey, founded in the 13th century in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, was a Cistercian nunnery traditionally associated with the love story of Lady Devorgilla and her husband, Sir Walter Stewart, who is said to have died in the Battle of Largs in 1263. The abbey's name derives from this tale, and it became a site of pilgrimage and local veneration, with traditions linking it to healing and devotion.
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Places near here
Sweetheart AbbeyHeritage attraction · 27 yd
New Abbey, Sweetheart Abbey, Burial GroundBurial Ground (medieval), Cemetery (19th Century) · 58 yd
War MemorialMemorial · 67 yd
New Abbey, War MemorialWar Memorial (19th Century) · 67 yd
New Abbey, GeneralVillage (period Unassigned) · 76 yd
New Abbey, Village HallNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 237 yd
New Abbey, the Square, Abbey Arms HotelHotel (period Unassigned) · 253 yd
New Abbey Corn MillMuseum · 307 yd
New AbbeyNo Class (event) (period Unassigned) · 353 yd
Abbot's TowerTower House (medieval) · 907 yd
Shambellie WoodForest · 1602 yd
Kinharvie PlantationForest · 1.7 miOther information
Photo: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0