Penpont Parish Church
Penpont Parish Church is a church in Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland. Penpont Parish Church is situated nearby to Penpont Post Office, as well as near the motorhome stopover Penpont Caravan Site.Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Church of Scotland
- Description: church in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Penpont Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Thornhill Hospital and Tynron Doon.
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 2 miles east of Penpont Parish Church.
Tynron Doon
Archaeological site
Photo: Scothill, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tynron Doon is a multivallate Iron Age hill fort outside the village of Tynron in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It was occupied on and off from the 1st millennium BC until the 16th century, when an L-shaped tower house stood there. Tynron Doon is situated 2 miles west of Penpont Parish Church.
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 1½ miles northeast of Penpont Parish Church.
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. Thornhill is situated 2 miles east of Penpont Parish Church.
Carronbridge
Village
Photo: Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carronbridge is a village in the parish of Morton in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The village is at the junction of the A76 and A702 roads approximately 1 mile north of Thornhill. Carronbridge is situated 2½ miles northeast of Penpont Parish Church.
Penpont Parish Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.23098° or 55° 13′ 52″ northLongitude
-3.81161° or 3° 48′ 42″ westOpen location code
9C7R65JQ+99OpenStreetMap ID
way 227512807OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=church_of_scotlandWikidata ID
Q17792306
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