Torthorwald Castle

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Torthorwald Castle is a large ruined rectangular tower at the centre of the village of Torthorwald just outside Dumfries in south west Scotland. The first castle on the site was an earthwork motte-and-bailey built in the 12th century. The earliest building which forms part of the current ruins was built in the 14th century. ()

Built: XIV centuryCoordinates: 55°5'21"N, 3°30'52"W

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Torthorwald Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Palmerston Park, Lochmaben Castle, Dumfries Museum, Lincluden Collegiate Church.

4.5 miW
Arenas and stadiums, Football, Sport
Palmerston Park, Dumfries
116 min walk • Palmerston Park is a football stadium on Terregles Street in Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is the home ground of Scottish Championship club Queen of the South, who have played there since 1919.
3.8 miNE
Forts and castles
Lochmaben Castle
97 min walk • Lochmaben Castle is a ruined castle in the town of Lochmaben, the feudal Lordship of Annandale, and the united county of Dumfries and Galloway.
4.3 miSW
History museum, Museum, Natural history museum
Dumfries Museum, Dumfries
110 min walk • Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in Dumfries & Galloway, is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era.
4.2 miW
Sacred and religious sites, Historical place, Church
Lincluden Collegiate Church, Dumfries
108 min walk • Lincluden Collegiate Church, known earlier as Lincluden Priory or Lincluden Abbey, is a ruined religious house, situated in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire and to the north of the Royal Burgh of Dumfries, Scotland.
4.2 miW
Museum
Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum, Dumfries
108 min walk • The Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum is a volunteer-operated aviation museum located in and around the World War II-era watch tower at the former RAF Dumfries, located two miles north east of the centre of Dumfries, Scotland, which was in service from June 1940 until 1957, when it closed.
3.8 miW
Art gallery, Museum, Shopping
Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
98 min walk • Gracefield Arts Centre is located in Dumfries. The gallery's main building, a Category B listed building, was bought in 1951 by a committee of local people who raised the money needed for the purchase and to do the alterations necessary to change the former house, which was known as ‘Gracefield’ into an art gallery.
4.4 miW
55°4'4"N • 3°37'5"W
Brigend Theatre, Dumfries
111 min walk • Concerts and shows, Theater
4 miW
Concerts and shows, Theater
Theatre Royal, Dumfries
101 min walk • The Theatre Royal in Dumfries, Scotland is the oldest working theatre in Scotland. The Theatre is owned by the Guild of Players who bought it in 1959, thereby saving it from demolition. The Guild's aim is to promote the tradition of live theatre in Dumfries.
5 miSW
Archaeological site
Curriestanes cursus, Dumfries
127 min walk • Curriestanes cursus is a large neolithic ditched enclosure on the outskirts of Dumfries, in the parish of Troqueer, Dumfries and Galloway. It is visible only from aerial photography. It is, along with Pict's Knowe, one of two scheduled monuments in Troqueer parish.
4.1 miSW
55°4'0"N • 3°36'37"W
Loreburne Shopping Centre, Dumfries
105 min walk • Shopping, Shopping centre
5 miW
Monastery
Dercongal Abbey
128 min walk • Dercongal Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.