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

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Villages & towns in Dumfries and GallowayDumfries and Galloway, Scotland

29 villages and towns in the Albion Guide across Dumfries and Galloway — see the full villages and towns directory, or everything to explore in Dumfries and Galloway.

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

Kirkcudbright

Colour-washed harbour town on the Dee, long an artists' colony and still full of galleries and studios.

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

Wigtown

Scotland's National Book Town, a small Machars burgh lined with second-hand bookshops above Wigtown Bay.

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

Durisdeer

Secluded hill village below the Well Path, known for its Georgian parish kirk and Queensberry monument.

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Photo of Isle of Whithorn, a village in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

Isle of Whithorn

Coastal Machars village around a natural harbour, a long-standing pilgrimage landfall near St Ninian's Chapel.

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

Moffat

Former spa town at the head of Annandale, Europe's first Dark Sky Town and a gateway to the Southern Uplands.

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Photo of New Abbey, a village in the Nith Estuary, Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

New Abbey

Wooded village south of Dumfries gathered beneath the red ruins of Sweetheart Abbey.

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

Portpatrick

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

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

Wanlockhead

Scotland's highest village, a former lead-mining settlement high in the Lowther Hills.

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Photo of Castle Douglas, a village in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

Castle Douglas

Planned 18th-century town beside Carlingwark Loch, promoted today as Galloway's food town.

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

Moniaive

Cluster of painted cottages wedged between glens above Dumfries, with a 17th-century mercat cross.

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

Thornhill

Planned Nithsdale village of 1714, its lime-lined streets meeting at a column topped by the Queensberry winged horse

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Photo of Carsethorn, a village in the Nith Estuary, Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

Carsethorn

Unspoiled Solway village with a historic harbour and long views across the firth to Criffel.

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

Garlieston

Crescent-planned Machars village around a sheltered bay, used to test the Mulberry harbours before D-Day.

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Photo of Gatehouse of Fleet, a village in the Fleet Valley, Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

Gatehouse of Fleet

Neat grid-plan cotton town in the wooded Fleet valley, once nicknamed the Glasgow of the South.

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

Southerness

Solway resort village beneath one of Scotland's oldest lighthouses, with a wide tidal beach.

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

Whithorn

Machars town regarded as the cradle of Scottish Christianity, where St Ninian founded his church.

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The red-sandstone Queen of the South on the River Nith, the region's main town and closely tied to Robert Burns.

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Gretna Green

Border village famous for runaway weddings over the blacksmith's anvil.

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Auchencairn

Solway-side village above a broad bay looking out to the tidal Hestan Island.

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Kippford

Yachting village strung along the Urr estuary, a former shipbuilding spot on the Colvend coast.

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Langholm

Eskdale wool town known as the Muckle Toon, famous for its Common Riding and Hugh MacDiarmid connections.

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Port Logan

Planned Rhins fishing village with a curving sandy beach, a bell tower and the historic Logan Fish Pond.

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Rockcliffe

Small Solway resort with a rocky bay and coastal paths, at the heart of a National Scenic Area.

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

Ecclefechan

Annandale village that was the birthplace of the writer Thomas Carlyle, whose home is preserved.

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

Sanquhar

Upper Nithsdale royal burgh, home to the world's oldest working post office and its own knitting pattern.

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

Annan

Red-sandstone market town near the mouth of the River Annan, with a long Solway trading history.

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

Creetown

Former granite port on the Cree estuary, known for its gem and rock museum.

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New Galloway

Scotland's smallest royal burgh, a single-street Glenkens town near Loch Ken and the Galloway hills.

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Palnackie

Tiny Urr estuary port that hosts an annual world flounder-tramping championship.

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