Kirkhill Mote

Places of Interest Nearby

Queen of the South Viaduct

Bridge

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Queen of the South Viaduct is a bridge, which is situated 2,300 feet southeast of Kirkhill Mote.

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. Palmerston Park is situated 1 mile south of Kirkhill Mote.

Gracefield Arts Centre

Museum

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Gracefield Arts Centre is located in Dumfries. 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. Gracefield Arts Centre is situated 1 mile southeast of Kirkhill Mote.

Places in the Area

Newbridge Drive

Quarter

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Newbridge Drive is a relatively new suburb in Dumfries. It is situated on the Maxwelltown side of the River Nith and is approx 1.8 miles north-west from Dumfries town centre.

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.

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.

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