Dumfries
Dumfries is a railway stop in Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland. Dumfries is situated nearby to St John’s Scottish Episcopal Church, as well as near St Mary’s Greyfriars Church.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dumfries railway station and Gracefield Arts Centre.
Dumfries railway station
Railway station
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Dumfries railway station serves the town of Dumfries in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. 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.
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 1,000 feet northwest of Dumfries.
Greyfriars Church, Dumfries
Church
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Greyfriars Church, Dumfries, is a Category A listed building in Dumfries, in southwest Scotland. The current Greyfriars Church building was built from 1866 to 1868 in the Victorian Gothic style, designed by architect John Starforth. Greyfriars Church, Dumfries is situated 1,900 feet west of Dumfries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dumfries and Maxwelltown.
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.
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.
Dumfries
- Type: Railway stop
- Categories: transport stop and transportation
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.07215° or 55° 4′ 20″ northLongitude
-3.60406° or 3° 36′ 15″ westOpen location code
9C7R39CW+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 3735524671OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stop_positionOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stop
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