Abbey of Dulce Cor
The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey, was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1273 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 miles south of Dumfries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: category A listed building in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “New Abbey Pow”, “Sweetheart Abbey”, and “Sweetheart Abbey, abbey, precinct and walls”
- Address: New Abbey, Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway DG2 8BU
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Museum of Costume.
National Museum of Costume
Museum
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The National Museum of Costume was located at Shambellie House, in New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland and it formed part of the National Museums of Scotland. National Museum of Costume is situated 1,900 feet northwest of Abbey of Dulce Cor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Abbey and Bankend.
New Abbey
Village
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
New Abbey is a village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is 6 miles south of Dumfries. The summit of the prominent hill Criffel is 2.5 miles to the south.
Bankend
Hamlet
Photo: James Yardley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bankend is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is located near Lochar Water, the civil parish Caerlaverock and the villages of Blackshaw, Glencaple and Shearington. In 1961 it had a population of 79. Bankend is situated 4 miles east of Abbey of Dulce Cor.
The Crichton
Suburb
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Crichton is an institutional campus in Dumfries in southwest Scotland. It serves as a remote campus for the University of Glasgow, the University of the West of Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway College, and the Open University. The Crichton is situated 5 miles north of Abbey of Dulce Cor.
Abbey of Dulce Cor
- Categories: monastery, abbey, and tourism
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.98009° or 54° 58′ 48″ northLongitude
-3.61892° or 3° 37′ 8″ westElevation
56 feet (17 metres)Open location code
9C6RX9JJ+2COpenStreetMap ID
way 191743471OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Abbey of Dulce Cor” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sweetheart abadia”
- Chinese: “斯威特哈特修道院”
- Chinese: “杜尔塞克修道院”
- Dutch: “Sweetheart Abbey”
- French: “abbaye de Sweetheart”
- French: “Abbaye de Sweetheart”
- German: “Sweetheart Abbey”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Sweetheart”
- Japanese: “スィートハート修道院”
- Scots: “Sweetheart Abbey”
- Welsh: “Abaty Sweetheart”
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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 “Abbey of Dulce Cor”. Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.