Minnigaff
Minnigaff is a village and civil parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Lead was discovered there in 1763 and mined about two miles from the village until 1839.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anthony O’Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Minigaff”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Douglas Ewart High School and Newton Stewart Hospital.
Douglas Ewart High School
School
Douglas Ewart High School was opened in 1922 in Newton Stewart, Scotland. It was formed by the amalgamation of the Douglas Free School opened in 1834 and the High School of the Ewart Institute opened in 1864.
Newton Stewart Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Billy McCrorie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Newton Stewart Hospital is a health facility in Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
All Saints Episcopal Church, Challoch
Church
Photo: Mark McKie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
All Saints Episcopal Church, Challoch is situated 2 miles northwest of Minnigaff.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Newton Stewart and Palnure.
Newton Stewart
Newton Stewart is a town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, along the main road between Carlisle, Dumfries and Stranraer. It's named for William Stewart who built several houses and obtained a burgh charter in 1677 from King Charles II.
Palnure
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Palnure is a small village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the Palnure Burn, just outside Newton Stewart. Palnure is situated 3 miles southeast of Minnigaff.
Minnigaff
- Category: locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.96161° or 54° 57′ 42″ northLongitude
-4.47938° or 4° 28′ 46″ westElevation
46 feet (14 metres)Open location code
9C6QXG6C+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 253861993OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Minnigaff” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مينيكاف”
- Asturian: “Minnigaff”
- Basque: “Minnigaff”
- Catalan: “Minnigaff”
- Dutch: “Minnigaff”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مينيكاف”
- French: “Minnigaff”
- German: “Minnigaff”
- Hebrew: “מיניגאף”
- Irish: “Muine Gobha”
- Japanese: “ミニガフ”
- Russian: “Миннигафф”
- Scots: “Minnigaff”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Muine Gobha”
- Spanish: “Minnigaff”
- Swedish: “Minnigaff”
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Highlights include Monument Garden and The Vault.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Minnigaff”. Photo: Anthony O’Neil, CC BY-SA 2.0.