Millennium Cairn
Millennium Cairn is a memorial in Scotland, United Kingdom. Millennium Cairn is situated nearby to the motorhome stopover Penpont Caravan Site, as well as near the forest Broomy Knowe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Penpont Parish Church and Nith Bridge cross.
Penpont Parish Church
Church
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Penpont Parish Church is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Millennium Cairn.
Nith Bridge cross
Monument
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Nith Bridge cross is a sculptured Anglo-Saxon cross, near the village of Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway. It is the best preserved monument of its type in the region, after the Ruthwell Cross, although the arms are missing. Nith Bridge cross is situated 4,200 feet east of Millennium Cairn.
Thornhill Hospital
Hospital
Thornhill Hospital is a health facility in Townhead Street, Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway. Thornhill Hospital is situated 1¼ miles east of Millennium Cairn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Penpont and Thornhill.
Penpont
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Penpont is a village about 2 miles west of Thornhill in Dumfriesshire, in the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland. It is near the confluence of the Shinnel Water and Scaur Water rivers in the foothills of the Southern Uplands.
Thornhill
Town
Photo: M J Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thornhill is a village in the Mid Nithsdale area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, south of Sanquhar and north of Dumfries on the main A76 road. Thornhill sits in the Nithsdale valley with the Carsphairn and Scaur range to the west and the Lowther hills to the east.
Closeburn
Village
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Closeburn is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The village is on the A76 road 2+1⁄2 miles south of Thornhill. In the 2001 census, Closeburn had a population of 1,119. Closeburn is situated 3 miles southeast of Millennium Cairn.
Millennium Cairn
- Type: Memorial
- Category: historic site
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.23666° or 55° 14′ 12″ northLongitude
-3.7993° or 3° 47′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C7R66P2+M7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1917284557OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorial
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