New Galloway
New Galloway is a town in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway. It lies on the west side of the valley of the Water of Ken, 1 mile north of the end of Loch Ken.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Galloway”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kells Parish Church and Kenmure Castle.
Kenmure Castle
Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kenmure Castle is a fortified house or castle in The Glenkens, 1 mile south of the town of New Galloway in Kirkcudbrightshire, Galloway, south-west Scotland.
Barscobe Castle
Castle
Photo: JMiall, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barscobe Castle is a 17th-century tower house in Balmaclellan, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. It is a typical house of a country laird, and according to a panel above the entrance, was built in 1648. Barscobe Castle is situated 2½ miles northeast of New Galloway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balmaclellan and St John’s Town of Dalry.
Balmaclellan
Village
Photo: Colin Kinnear, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Balmaclellan is a small hillside village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland. To the west, across the Ken River, the larger and more prosperous New Galloway lies below the Rhinns of Kells.
St John’s Town of Dalry
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John's Town of Dalry, usually referred to simply as Dalry, is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire. St John’s Town of Dalry is situated 2½ miles northwest of New Galloway.
New Galloway
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.07399° or 55° 4′ 26″ northLongitude
-4.14081° or 4° 8′ 27″ westElevation
213 feet (65 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB NGYOpen location code
9C7Q3VF5+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 208275725OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2641645Wikidata ID
Q3778560
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“New Galloway” goes by many names.
- Basque: “New Galloway”
- Chinese: “新盖洛韦”
- Chinese: “新蓋洛韋”
- Dutch: “New Galloway”
- French: “New Galloway”
- German: “New Galloway”
- Hebrew: “ניו גאלווי”
- Irish: “Baile Úr Ghall-Ghaidhealaibh”
- Irish: “Baile Ùr Ghall-Ghaidhealaibh”
- Irish: “Gall-Ghàidhealaibh Nuadh”
- Italian: “New Galloway”
- Polish: “New Galloway”
- Russian: “Нью-Галловей”
- Scots: “New Gallowa”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Ur Ghall-Ghaidhealaibh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Ùr Ghall-Ghaidhealaibh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Gall-Ghàidhealaibh Nuadh”
- Scottish Gaelic: “New Galloway”
- Swedish: “New Galloway”
- “New Galloway”
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Highlights include New Galloway Post Office and Catstrand.
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