Shinnel Water
Shinnel Water, also spelt Shinnell, is a river in the region of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It rises in the Scaur hills of Tynron Parish in the Southern Uplands at an altitude of 460m, and flows 13 miles to join Scaur Water near Penpont, at an altitude of 70m.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Tynron Doon and Penpont Parish Church.
Tynron Doon
Archaeological site
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Tynron Doon is a multivallate Iron Age hill fort outside the village of Tynron in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It was occupied on and off from the 1st millennium BC until the 16th century, when an L-shaped tower house stood there.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penpont and Tynron.
Penpont
Village
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Penpont is a village about 2 miles west of Thornhill in Dumfriesshire, in the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland. It is near the confluence of the Shinnel Water and Scaur Water rivers in the foothills of the Southern Uplands.
Tynron
Hamlet
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Tynron is a village and civil parish located in Dumfries and Galloway, in south-west Scotland. It lies in a hollow along the Shinnel Water, approximately 2 miles from the village of Moniaive. Tynron is situated 1½ miles west of Shinnel Water.
Thornhill
Town
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Thornhill is a village in the Mid Nithsdale area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, south of Sanquhar and north of Dumfries on the main A76 road. Thornhill sits in the Nithsdale valley with the Carsphairn and Scaur range to the west and the Lowther hills to the east. Thornhill is situated 3 miles northeast of Shinnel Water.
Shinnel Water
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, tributary of Scaur Water
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Shinnel Water” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shinnel Water”
- Scots: “Shinnel Watter”
- Swedish: “Shinnel Water”
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