Nithside

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

Places of Interest

Highlights include Palmerston Park and Greyfriars Church, Dumfries.

Stadium
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is a football stadium on Terregles Street in , , Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish League One club Queen of the South, who have played there since 1919.

Church
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, is a Category A listed building in , in southwest . The current Greyfriars Church building was built from 1866 to 1868 in the Victorian Gothic style, designed by architect John Starforth.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dumfries and Maxwelltown.

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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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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.

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.

Nithside

Latitude
55.07333° or 55° 4′ 24″ north
Longitude
-3.61823° or 3° 37′ 6″ west
Elevation
49 feet (15 metres)
Open location code
9C7R39FJ+8P
Geo­Names ID
13270364
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Highlights include Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre and Dumfries railway station.

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