Laurieknowe
Laurieknowe is a suburb in Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland. Laurieknowe is situated nearby to the suburb Janefield, as well as near Summerhill.Places of Interest
Highlights include HM Prison Dumfries and Palmerston Park.
HM Prison Dumfries
Prison
HM Prison Dumfries services the courts of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The establishment serves as a local community prison that holds adult and under 21 males who are remanded in custody for trial and those convicted but remanded for reports.
Palmerston Park
Stadium
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Palmerston Park is a football stadium on Terregles Street in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish League One club Queen of the South, who have played there since 1919.
Dumfries Museum
Museum
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Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in Dumfries & Galloway, 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 Maxwelltown and Dumfries.
Maxwelltown
Suburb
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Maxwelltown 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 Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.
Dumfries
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Dumfries is the principal town of Dumfries and Galloway 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 Dumfries town until his death, aged 37.
Troqueer
Suburb
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Troqueer is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway on the west side of the River Nith. The eastern-side was merged with Dumfries to the east in 1929, and today eastern Troqueer is a suburb of Dumfries.
Laurieknowe
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.06783° or 55° 4′ 4″ northLongitude
-3.62443° or 3° 37′ 28″ westElevation
75 feet (23 metres)Open location code
9C7R399G+46OpenStreetMap ID
node 11750819548OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
13270317
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