Stoop

Stoop is a locality in , , . Stoop is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dumfries railway station and Gracefield Arts Centre.

Railway station
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serves the town of in , . It is located on the Glasgow South Western Line. The station is owned by Network Rail and managed by ScotRail who provide all passenger train services.

Museum
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is located in . The gallery's main building, a Category B listed building, was bought in 1951 by a committee of local people who raised the money needed for the purchase and to do the alterations necessary to change the former house, which was known as ‘Gracefield’ into an art gallery.

Museum
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and Camera Obscura, located in in , is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dumfries and Troqueer.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the principal town of in southwest Scotland. It's a pleasant market town, with a population of 46,500 in 2020. Robert Burns the poet spent his last years here: from 1788 to 1791 at Ellisland Farm 7 miles north, then in town until his death, aged 37.

Suburb
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is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in on the west side of the . The eastern-side was merged with to the east in 1929, and today eastern is a suburb of Dumfries.

Suburb
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was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh and by the time of the burgh's abolition in 1929 it was the most populous burgh in the county of , Scotland.

Stoop

Latitude
55.07236° or 55° 4′ 21″ north
Longitude
-3.58821° or 3° 35′ 18″ west
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Open location code
9C7R3CC6+WP
Geo­Names ID
13270023
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