Burrow Head
Burrow Head is a headland located approximately two miles south-west of Isle of Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Scotland, and is the second southernmost point of Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Richard Law, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whithorn.
Whithorn
Village
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whithorn, is a royal burgh in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about 10 miles south of Wigtown. The town was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland, Candida Casa "White/Shining House", built by Saint Ninian about 397 CE.
Burrow Head
- Type: Cape
- Description: cape in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Category: landform
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.6776° or 54° 40′ 39″ northLongitude
-4.39314° or 4° 23′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C6QMJH4+2POpenStreetMap ID
node 9956593887OpenStreetMap feature
natural=capeGeoNames ID
2654231Wikidata ID
Q5000496
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Burrow Head” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Burrow Head”
- Japanese: “バロウヘッド”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burrow Head”
- Scots: “Burrow Heid”
- Swedish: “Burrow Head (udde i Storbritannien, Skottland)”
- Swedish: “Burrow Head”
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Localities in the Area
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