Glenluce
Glenluce is a small village in the parish of Old Luce in Wigtownshire, Scotland. It contains a village shop, a caravan park and a town hall, as well as the parish church.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Glenluce Abbey and Castle of Park.
Glenluce Abbey
Ruins
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Glenluce Abbey, near to Glenluce, Scotland, was a Cistercian monastery called also Abbey of Luce or Vallis Lucis and founded around 1190 by Rolland or Lochlann, Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland.
Castle of Park
Building
Photo: John of Reading, Public domain.
The Castle of Park is a 16th-century L-plan tower house near Glenluce, in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is a category A listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dunragit and Castle Kennedy.
Dunragit
Village
Photo: David Baird, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunragit is a village on the A75, between Stranraer and Glenluce in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. Dunragit is within the parish of Old Luce, in the traditional county of Wigtownshire. Dunragit is situated 3 miles west of Glenluce.
Castle Kennedy
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Castle Kennedy is a small village 3 miles east of Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is on the A75 road, and is within the civil parish of Inch. Castle Kennedy is situated 6 miles west of Glenluce.
Glenluce
- Type: Village with 600 residents
- Description: village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Category: locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.8785° or 54° 52′ 43″ northLongitude
-4.8111° or 4° 48′ 40″ westPopulation
600Elevation
75 feet (23 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GLCOpen location code
9C6QV5HQ+CHOpenStreetMap ID
node 345856247OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Glenluce” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Glenluce”
- Cebuano: “Glenluce”
- Dutch: “Glenluce”
- French: “Glenluce”
- German: “Glenluce”
- Irish: “Clachan Ghlinn Lus”
- Irish: “Gleann Lus”
- Italian: “Glenluce”
- Persian: “گلنلوس”
- Scots: “Glenluice”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Clachan Ghlinn Lus”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Glenluce”
- Slovenian: “Glenluce”
- Spanish: “Glenluce”
- Swedish: “Glenluce”
- Welsh: “Glenluce”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Glenluce Public Hall and Glenluce Post Office.
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