Drumlanrig Castle

#380 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Drumlanrig Castle is situated on the Queensberry Estate in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The category A listed castle is the Dumfriesshire home of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 55°16'26"N, 3°48'32"W

Location

Drumlanrig MainsThornhill DG3 4AG ScotlandUnited Kingdom

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+44 1848 331555

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

Nearby attractions include: Crichope Linn, Morton Castle, Tynron Doon, Closeburn Castle.

4.4 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Crichope Linn
112 min walk • Crichope Linn or Crichop Linn, originally Creehope is a gorge and waterfall near Gatelawbridge in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland. Linn is the Scots language word for waterfall.
2.4 miE
Forts and castles
Morton Castle
62 min walk • Morton Castle is located by an artificial loch in the hills above Nithsdale, in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It lies 2.5 miles north-east of Thornhill, and once formed part of a chain of castles along the strategically important Nith Valley, which runs from the Solway Firth north to the Clyde Valley.
3.8 miSW
Archaeological site
Tynron Doon
98 min walk • 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.
5.6 miSE
Forts and castles
Closeburn Castle
143 min walk • Closeburn Castle is a tower house, probably of the 14th century, but possibly older, and is one of the oldest continually inhabited houses in Scotland.
0.9 miSE
Museum, Forts and castles
Tibbers Castle
25 min walk • Tibbers Castle is a motte-and-bailey castle overlooking a ford across the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. To the east is the village of Carronbridge and to the north west is a 16th-century country house, Drumlanrig Castle.
3.1 miSW
Archaeological site
Grennan Hill
79 min walk • Grennan Hill is the site of an Iron Age hill fort outside Penpont in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
2.9 miSE
Town
Thornhill
74 min walk • 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.