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Hamlet in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland · United Kingdom

Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway

Kirkandrews, sometimes written as Kirkanders in older documents, is a coastal hamlet about 9 kilometres (6 mi) west-southwest of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway
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The place

Kirkandrews, sometimes written as Kirkanders in older documents, is a coastal hamlet about 9 kilometres (6 mi) west-southwest of Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It sits in farmland at the head of Kirkandrews Bay, an inlet of Wigtown Bay.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Plunton Castle

    Plunton Castle is a ruined L-plan tower house between Kirkandrews and Gatehouse of Fleet in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Built around 1575 for the Lennoxes of Plunton, it passed by marriage to the Murrays of Broughton in the late 17th century.

    2.6 km · castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway

Airports
Glasgow Prestwick (PIK), 81 km · Isle of Man (IOM), 86 km · Glasgow (GLA), 119 km
  • Prestwick, South Ayrshire → Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway
    81 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12
  • Glasgow → Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £14–18
  • Belfast → Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway
    115 km · quickest by road, 12h 3m · £190–305
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 36 sources

    105 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    141 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    166 km
  4. 04
    Isle of CollGB

    7 ways of moving, 16 sources

    251 km
  5. 05
    The Small Isles - Eigg, Muck, Rum and CannaGB

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    275 km

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Around it

Next door to Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway

  • Borguevillage in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK2.9 km