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Old 18th June 2019, 06:32 AM
Collas Collas is offline
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Kirkcudbright is well worth a visit due to the influence of the late-Victorian artists' movement that was based there - many of the houses have been painted. The harbour on the river Dee and Castle MacLellan are both very interesting, as is Tongland Power Station. Further afield, there's another castle, Threave, on an island in the middle of the river just outside Castle Douglas. The RPSB has a reserve near Newton Stewart, Wood of Cree, that is extremely pretty. And the road out of Gatehouse to the disused station and the viaduct (Big Water of Fleet) near the Cliints of Dromore and the visitor centre at Cairnsmore of Fleet is worth travelling along. It goes on to Creetown. Nearer Gatehouse is the ruined church at Anwoth.
The area featured in both the Wicker Man (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917...ref_=ttfc_ql_5) and the BBC's Ian Carmichael version of the Dorothy L Sayers story of the Five Red Herrings (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1257697/?ref_=ttep_ep1), which was the reason I stayed in Kirkcudbright. I scouted out many of the locations used in the programme, though I haven't managed to successfully get them added to IMDB, as yet. And parts of John Buchan's classic The Thirty-Nine Steps are set in the area, too.

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