--- title: "Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom: Kirkandrews, sometimes written as Kirkanders in older documents, is a coastal hamlet about 9…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kirkandrews" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/kirkandrews.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Kirkandrews%2C_Memorial_Chapel_And_Burial-ground%2C_Kirkcudbright%2C_1.jpg/3840px-Kirkandrews%2C_Memorial_Chapel_And_Burial-ground%2C_Kirkcudbright%2C_1.jpg" --- 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](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Kirkandrews%2C_Memorial_Chapel_And_Burial-ground%2C_Kirkcudbright%2C_1.jpg/3840px-Kirkandrews%2C_Memorial_Chapel_And_Burial-ground%2C_Kirkcudbright%2C_1.jpg) Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway · Wikimedia Commons 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. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkandrews%2C_Dumfries_and_Galloway), CC BY-SA 4.0. 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. 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunton_Castle) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## 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 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/prestwick-south-ayrshire-to-kirkandrews-dumfries-and-galloway) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Prestwick%2C+South+Ayrshire&to=Kirkandrews%2C+Dumfries+and+Galloway) - Glasgow → Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway 118 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £14–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/glasgow-to-kirkandrews-dumfries-and-galloway) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Glasgow&to=Kirkandrews%2C+Dumfries+and+Galloway) - Belfast → Kirkandrews, Dumfries and Galloway 115 km · quickest by road, 12h 3m · £190–305 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/belfast-to-kirkandrews-dumfries-and-galloway) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Belfast&to=Kirkandrews%2C+Dumfries+and+Galloway) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Kirkandrews%2C%20Dumfries%20and%20Galloway) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. 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. [Isle of Arran](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/isle-of-arran) GB 10 ways of moving, 36 sources 105 km 2. [Tarbert, Loch Fyne and Kintyre](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tarbert-loch-fyne) GB 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 141 km 3. 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