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View eastward, towards Ayr, also previously Dumfries and Carlisle: ex-G&SW & Caledonian Joint (Portpatrick & Wigtownshire) main line from Stranraer. This was and remains the principal main railway route to Northern Ireland, but... (more)

Showing the road to Glenluce (A75).

View across one of the fairways of this six hole golf course in Castle Kennedy. The island in the middle of the lake hid two swans at the time I visited and there appears to be a brick built hide/resting place behind the trees right of picture.

The Southern Upland Way is one of Scotland's official long-distance paths and runs 340 km from Portpatrick in the west to Cockburnspath in the east. Here it passes through woods just outside Castle Kennedy

A Scottish Fuels storage and distribution site in the middle of the small village of Castle Kennedy.

From the A75 opposite Castle Kennedy village, this is the southern entrance to Castle Kennedy estate, with a typical gate keeper's cottage.

Opened in 1861 by the Portpatrick Railway on what became the Portpatrick & Wigtownshire Joint Railway from Castle Douglas to Portpatrick, this station closed in 1965. The railway line was known as 'The Port Road'. View east... (more)

A turn-off from the A75 at Castle Kennedy, which allows the bus to get out of the way of heavy traffic on this main road from Ireland through Scotland.

From the junction with Broadwood Road.

An Esso branded petrol station beside the A75 road at Castle Kennedy.

Castle Kennedy is a small village on the A75 road, 3 miles to the east of Stranraer in Dumfries and Galloway. The village is to the south of the Lochinch Castle estate, which includes the ruins of the seventeenth century Castle Kennedy, as... (more)