Goat Well Bay

Goat Well Bay is a bay in Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland. Goat Well Bay is situated nearby to the locality Devil’s Thrashing Floor, as well as near Senwick Bay.

Places of Interest

Highlights include MacLellan’s Castle and Kirkcudbright Tolbooth.

MacLellan’s Castle

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MacLellan's Castle in the town of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway, Scotland, was built in the late 16th century. It stands in the centre of Kirkcudbright, on the south side of the River Dee which flows into the Solway Firth.

Kirkcudbright Tolbooth

Museum

Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kirkcudbright Tolbooth is a historic municipal building in Kirkcudbright in Kirkcudbrightshire in the administrative area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Stewartry Museum

Museum

Photo: Chris Newman, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Stewartry Museum is a local museum in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which covers the history of this part of Galloway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kirkcudbright and Kirkandrews.

Kirkcudbright

Photo: ian freeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kirkcudbright is a coastal town in Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland, with a poppulation in 2020 of 3350. Farming and fishing are its main trades.

Kirkandrews

Hamlet

Photo: LornaMCampbell, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kirkandrews, sometimes written as Kirkanders in older documents, is a coastal hamlet about 9 kilometres west-southwest of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Twynholm

Village

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Twynholm is a village in Scotland. It is located 2+1⁄4 miles north-northwest of Kirkcudbright and 4+1⁄2 miles east of Gatehouse of Fleet on the main A75 trunk road.

Goat Well Bay

Type: Bay
Description: bay in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Category: body of water
Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.80853° or 54° 48′ 31″ north

Longitude

-4.08693° or 4° 5′ 13″ west

Open location code

9C6QRW57+C6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2959932724

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

11103507

Wikidata ID

Q31845113

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Goat Well Bay” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Goat Well Bay”
Swedish: “Goat Well Bay”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Devil’s Thrashing Floor and Senwick Bay.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Dhoon Bay and Doon Wood.

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