Nearest History & Heritage Dumfries and Galloway
Our History and Heritage category brings all Coast Radar’s Dumfries and Galloway listings related to looking for something to do or a place to visit together where they offer some form of historic or heritage based activity.
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- The Castle of St John is an early 16th-century L-plan tower house, built by the Adairs of Kilhilt around 1510. Over the centuries it has been used as a home, a court, a police station, a military garrison, and a Victorian prison. The castle is now a museum.
- Broughton House was the home and studio of E A Hornel, one of the famous early 20th-century ‘Glasgow Boys’. The house today is a beautiful living museum dedicated to Hornel’s life and work. If you are an art-lover then this is a must visit as it has many paintings, photographs and sculpture. Outside the house, is a beautiful garden that backs on to the River Dee.
- Cardoness Castle is a 15th Century tower house just south-west of Gatehouse of Fleet. It was originally owned by the MacCulloch family of Galloway also known as the MacCullochs of Myreton. They abandoned the castle in the late 17th Century, following the execution of Sir Godfrey McCulloch for the murder of a Clan Gordon neighbour. You have a good view of Fleet Bay from its battlements.
