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East Ayrshire

Dumfries House

Dumfries House is a Palladian country house in , Scotland. It is located within a large estate, around two miles west of . Noted for being one of the few such houses with much of its original 18th-century furniture still present, including…
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: country house in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK
  • Address: Cumnock, KA18 2NJ
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Auchinleck railway station and Terringzean Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Gordon Dowie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station in the village of , , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the Glasgow South Western Line. It is also the nearest station to the larger town of . is situated 1 mile northeast of Dumfries House.

Ruins
Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.
, also Taringzean, pronounced 'Tringan', is a Category B listed castle ruin lying above the River Lugar and the Terringzean Holm in the policies of , Parish of , Scotland. is situated 1 mile east of Dumfries House.

School
The is a secondary school located in , Scotland, which opened to pupils in October 2020 following the merger of Cumnock Academy and Auchinleck Academy. is situated 1¼ miles east of Dumfries House.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Auchinleck and Cumnock.

Village
Photo: Brian D Osborne, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village 5 miles southeast of , and 2 miles northwest of in , . Surrounding the village is Estate, centred on House, past home of the lawyer, diarist and biographer James Boswell, 9th Laird of .

Town
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town and former civil parish located in , . The town sits at the confluence of the Glaisnock Water and the . is situated 1½ miles east of Dumfries House.

Village
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a conservation village in , Scotland, near and . It is one of the oldest villages in East Ayrshire, with archaeological remains indicating Stone Age and Bronze Age settlers. is situated 2 miles west of Dumfries House.

Dumfries House

Latitude
55.45557° or 55° 27′ 20″ north
Longitude
-4.308° or 4° 18′ 29″ west
Open location code
9C7QFM4R+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 975314950
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­limited
Wiki­data ID
Q5313796
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Japanese—“Dumfries House” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “敦弗里斯莊園”
  • German: “Dumfries House”
  • Greek: “Οίκος Ντάμφρις”
  • Hindi: “डम्फ़्रीज़ हाउस”
  • Japanese: “ダンフリーズ・ハウス”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dumfries House”. Photo: Julien.scavini, CC BY-SA 4.0.