Lochmaben
Lochmaben is a small town and civil parish in Scotland, and site of a castle. It lies 4 miles west of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway. By the 12th century the Bruce family had become the local landowners and, in the 14th century, Edward I rebuilt Lochmaben Castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Lochmaben Castle and Lochmaben Parish Church, High Street, Lochmaben.
Old Lochmaben Castle
Archaeological site
Lochmaben Castle was a 12th-century castle on the spit of land between Loch Kirk and Loch Castle, in Lochmaben, Scotland. The motte and bailey castle was built in the 12th century by the de Brus family, Lords of Annandale.
Lochmaben Hospital
Hospital
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Lochmaben Hospital is a health facility in Woodlands Drive, Lochmaben, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Applegarthtown and Millhousebridge.
Applegarthtown
Hamlet
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Applegarthtown, also known as Applegarth or Applegirth, is a village near Lockerbie in Annandale, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Applegarthtown is situated on the east bank of the River Annan close to its junction with the Nethercleugh Burn. it is five kilometres west of Lockerbie. Applegarthtown is situated 2 miles northeast of Lochmaben.
Millhousebridge
Hamlet
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Millhousebridge is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Millhousebridge is situated 2½ miles northeast of Lochmaben.
Lockerbie
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Lockerbie is a town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a population of 4190 in 2020. It's on the road and railway between Carlisle and Glasgow, and grew up as a "planned town" from the 18th century.
Lochmaben
- Type: Town with 1,940 residents
- Description: town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.12888° or 55° 7′ 44″ northLongitude
-3.44128° or 3° 26′ 29″ westPopulation
1,940Elevation
187 feet (57 metres)Open location code
9C7R4HH5+HFOpenStreetMap ID
node 36318995OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2643812Wikidata ID
Q3257725
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Lochmaben” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Lochmaben”
- Basque: “Lochmaben”
- Breton: “Lochmaben”
- Cebuano: “Lochmaben”
- Chinese: “洛支麥本”
- Chinese: “洛赫梅本”
- Dutch: “Lochmaben”
- French: “Lochmaben”
- German: “Lochmaben”
- Irish: “Loch Mhabain”
- Italian: “Lochmaben”
- Japanese: “ロックマーベン”
- Japanese: “ロックメイベン”
- Persian: “لوچمابین”
- Polish: “Lochmaben”
- Russian: “Лохмабен”
- Scots: “Lochmaben”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Loch Mhabain”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Lochmaben”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوچمابین”
- Spanish: “Lochmaben”
- Swedish: “Lochmaben”
- Welsh: “Lochmaben”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Lochmaben”. Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.