Loch Ettrick

#5423 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Lake

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Loch Ettrick is a body of water near Thornhill and Ae, Dumfries and Galloway, in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. ()

Elevation: 886 ft a.s.l.Coordinates: 55°13'36"N, 3°39'35"W

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Loch Ettrick – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Crichope Linn, Morton Castle, Closeburn Castle, Queensberry Hill.

2.4 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Canyon
Crichope Linn
61 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.
4.8 miNW
Forts and castles
Morton Castle
123 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.
2.6 miSW
Forts and castles
Closeburn Castle
66 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.
4.6 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Queensberry Hill
117 min walk • Queensberry is a hill in the Lowther Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. The most southerly mountain in the range, it lies in the parish of Kirkpatrick-Juxta and is a prominent landmark throughout Dumfriesshire.
5.8 miNW
Museum, Forts and castles
Tibbers Castle
149 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 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Forest of Ae
78 min walk • The Forest of Ae is located between Nithsdale and Annandale in Dumfries and Galloway in south-west Scotland. The forest was first planted in the 1920s, primarily with Sitka spruce.
4.2 miW
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Thornhill
108 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.