Kirtle Water

The Kirtle Water is a river in Dumfries and Galloway in southern Scotland. It rises on the southern slopes of Haggy Hill where its headwaters are impounded to form Winterhope Reservoir.

Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lochmaben Stone and Raydale Park.

Lochmaben Stone

Ruins

Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Lochmaben Stone is a megalith on the shore of the Solway Firth in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies by the mouth of the Kirtle Water, near the town of Gretna.

Raydale Park

Sports venue

Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Raydale Park is a football stadium in Gretna, Scotland. It is home to Lowland League side Gretna 2008 and now has a capacity of 1,030. Raydale formerly served as the home ground of Gretna until the club resigned from the Scottish Football League in 2008.

Gretna Green railway station

Railway station

Photo: Stephen Armstrong, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gretna Green is a railway station on the Glasgow South Western Line, which runs between Carlisle and Glasgow Central via Kilmarnock. The station, situated 9 miles 58 chains north-west of Carlisle, serves the town of Gretna and village of Gretna Green in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gretna and Metal Bridge.

Gretna

Photo: Amanda Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Gretna, together with Gretna Green, is a border town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a population of 3400 in 2022; the name refers to grit or gravel.

Metal Bridge

Hamlet

Photo: Adrian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Metal Bridge is a small settlement in Cumbria, England between Carlisle and Gretna, formerly on the main A74 road. The settlement consists of a few properties clustered around a public house of the same name, on the south bank of the River Esk, in a corner of Rockcliffe parish. Metal Bridge is situated 3 miles east of Kirtle Water.

Eastriggs

Village

Photo: Red Sunset, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Eastriggs is a small village located in Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland, the village is located around 2 mi north of the mud and sandbanks of the channel of the River Eden, which extends west into the Solway Firth. Eastriggs is situated 4 miles west of Kirtle Water.

Kirtle Water

Type: Stream
Description: river in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, flows into the Solway Firth south of Gretna
Categories: river and body of water
Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.98333° or 54° 59′ north

Longitude

-3.08333° or 3° 5′ west

Elevation

20 feet (6 metres)

Open location code

9C6RXWM8+8M

GeoNames ID

2645188

Wikidata ID

Q6416240

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Kirtle Water” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Kirtle Water”
Scots: “Kirtle Watter”
Swedish: “Kirtle Water”

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