Tower Wood

Tower Wood is a forest in , , . Tower Wood is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Easthill stone circle and Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.

Archaeological site
Photo: C1614, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as the Seven Grey Stanes, is a small oval stone circle 3¾ miles south-west of . Eight stones of a probable nine remain.

Hospital
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is the main hospital in , Scotland. The hospital is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

Archaeological site
Pict's Knowe is a henge monument in the parish of , . It is one of a small group of henge monuments around which includes Broadlea henge near .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dumfries and Maxwelltown.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the principal town of 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 town until his death, aged 37.

Suburb
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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 , Scotland.

Suburb
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is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in on the west side of the . The eastern-side was merged with to the east in 1929, and today eastern is a suburb of Dumfries.

Tower Wood

Latitude
55.0377° or 55° 2′ 16″ north
Longitude
-3.6741° or 3° 40′ 27″ west
Open location code
9C7R28QG+38
Open­Street­Map ID
way 281470157
Open­Street­Map feature
landuse=­forest
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