Twynholm
Twynholm is a village in Scotland. It is located 2+1⁄4 miles north-northwest of Kirkcudbright and 4+1⁄2 miles east of Gatehouse of Fleet on the main A75 trunk road.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 119 residents
- Description: village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Tuinname”
Places of Interest
Highlights include MacLellan’s Castle and Kirkcudbright Tolbooth.
MacLellan’s Castle
Photo: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
MacLellan's Castle in the town of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway, Scotland, was built in the late 16th century. It stands in the centre of Kirkcudbright, on the south side of the River Dee which flows into the Solway Firth. MacLellan’s Castle is situated 2½ miles southeast of Twynholm.
Kirkcudbright Tolbooth
Museum
Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kirkcudbright Tolbooth is a historic municipal building in Kirkcudbright in Kirkcudbrightshire in the administrative area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Kirkcudbright Tolbooth is situated 2½ miles southeast of Twynholm.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kirkcudbright and Anwoth.
Kirkcudbright
Photo: ian freeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kirkcudbright is a coastal town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a poppulation in 2020 of 3350. Farming and fishing are its main trades.
Anwoth
Village
Photo: Chris Newman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Anwoth is a settlement near the Solway Firth in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire, southwest Scotland, within a parish of the same name in the Vale of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway. Anwoth is situated 5 miles west of Twynholm.
Kirkandrews
Hamlet
Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kirkandrews, sometimes written as Kirkanders in older documents, is a coastal hamlet about 9 kilometres west-southwest of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Kirkandrews is situated 6 miles southwest of Twynholm.
Twynholm
- Category: locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.86687° or 54° 52′ 1″ northLongitude
-4.08162° or 4° 4′ 54″ westPopulation
119Elevation
233 feet (71 metres)Open location code
9C6QVW89+P9OpenStreetMap ID
node 29104748OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2635291Wikidata ID
Q489551
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Satellite Map
Discover Twynholm from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Twynholm” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Twynholm”
- Belarusian: “Твінхольм”
- Cebuano: “Twynholm”
- Dutch: “Twiname Way”
- Dutch: “Twynholm”
- French: “Twynholm”
- German: “Twynholm”
- Hebrew: “טווינהולם”
- Indonesian: “Twynholm”
- Indonesian: “Tywnholm”
- Irish: “Twynholm”
- Italian: “Twynholm”
- Persian: “توینهولم”
- Scots: “Twynham, Dumfries an Gallowa”
- Scots: “Twynham”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Twynholm”
- Swedish: “Twynholm”
- Ukrainian: “Твінгольм”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Twynholm Motte and Gallows Hill Plantation.
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