Old Closeburn Loch (now drained)

Old Closeburn Loch (now drained) is in Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland. Old Closeburn Loch (now drained) is situated nearby to the village Park, as well as near the locality Barnmuir Hill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Thornhill Hospital and Closeburn Castle.

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.

Closeburn Castle

House

Photo: Kirkpatrick, CC BY 2.5.

Closeburn Castle is a privately owned tower house, probably of the 14th century, but possibly older, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited houses in Scotland.

Wallace Hall

School

Photo: Rosser1954, Public domain.

Wallace Hall is a non-denominational, co-educational state comprehensive school located in Thornhill, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. The school operates across a single modern campus and provides continuous education from early years through to secondary level, encompassing a nursery, primary school, and secondary school under unified leadership.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Thornhill and Closeburn.

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.