The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey, was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1273 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county …
Makes a really good round trip going back to Dumfries on the coast roads, A711 to Dalbeattie and A710 to Dumfries (they may be A roads, but not very busy). …
Built in 1881 the church is one of the few remaining examples of ‘tin’ churches that were popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The owner of the …