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Photo of Glenwhan Gardens, a garden near Dunragit, Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

© Billy McCrorie / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Glenwhan Gardens

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Glenwhan is a hillside garden above Luce Bay near Dunragit, carved out of open moorland from the late 1970s and now grown into a lovely tangle of lochans, azaleas and tender plants that enjoy the mild coast. The views down to the bay are worth the climb. Seasonal opening with an admission charge; Stranraer station is about 9km to the west.

More places to visit near Glenwhan Gardens

Photo along the Southern Upland Way, a long-distance trail running from Portpatrick to Cockburnspath, southern Scotland.Highlight

Southern Upland Way

Scotland's Great Trail

A coast-to-coast crossing of southern Scotland's empty hills, from Portpatrick to the North Sea.

2.4 km N · Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders & South Lanarkshire

Photo of Sands of Luce, a beach near Port Logan, Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.Highlight

Sands of Luce

Beach near Port Logan

Long golden beach sweeping around the head of Luce Bay at Sandhead.

9.5 km SW

Photo of Knockinaam Lodge, a restaurant near Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.Highlight

Knockinaam Lodge

Restaurant · With rooms near Portpatrick

A secluded Victorian lodge in its own cove on the Galloway coast.

14.6 km SW

Photo of Dunskey Castle, a ruined castle near Portpatrick, Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.Highlight

Dunskey Castle

Castle near Portpatrick

A roofless clifftop shell just south of Portpatrick, once a stronghold of the Adair family

15.7 km W

Photo of Portpatrick, a village in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.Highlight

Portpatrick

Village

Painted harbour village on the Rhins, once the packet port for Ireland and now the start of the Southern Upland Way.

15.9 km W · Dumfries and Galloway

Photo of Mochrum Loch, a loch in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

Mochrum Loch

Loch

Cormorants nest inland here in numbers rare for Britain, at this moorland loch in the Machars of Galloway.

15.9 km E · Dumfries and Galloway