Scotland Luxury Country Hotel Accommodation in Dumfries & Galloway

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Peaceful, and with a long history as a market town, Dumfries is a must visit, when exploring the Dumfries & Galloway area. One of Scotland's most striking castles, Caerlaverock Castle, is nearby alongside the Caerlaverock Wildfowl and Westlands Centre, plus there's local Dumfries golf, parks and gardens, family holiday attractions, a choice of Dumfries museums and an evolving arts and crafts scene centering around the Gracefields Arts Centre. Although Robert Burns, as Scotland's National Poet, has become the main tourist focus here, there's much more going on in Dumfries including a fascinating Aviation Museum, a costume museum and two excellent local history museums. Scotland's oldest bridge - Devorgilla Bridge, is here too!

Another must visit is Gretna and Gretna Green. Gretna Green Scottish weddings are still popular, with over 1000 couples marrying here in Gretna every year. The Old Blacksmith's Shop and Centre is the main hub not just for superb Scottish shopping but also as a heritage site for runaway weddings since 1754. The Gretna Story exhibit within the Blacksmith's complex is well worth your time to explore Gretna Green Weddings history and why couples flocked here to get married.

Gretna Green shopping lives up to the hype - at the Old Blacksmith's Centre you've everything from Scottish Tartan and Scotch Whisky to arts and crafts, Scottish gifts and full cafe and restaurant facilities on-site. More Gretna Green Shopping is on offer at the Gretna Gateway Outlet Village - see weblink right for details. Highly recommended too is the Devil's Porridge exhibit at St John's Church just outside Gretna at Eastriggs. It's an important site for women's history and the history of womens roles in munitions production during World War One. Little of the huge cordite munitions factory which once spread across the Gretna Green area during World War One remains now, but this museum gives you a glimpse of what was once here, and the dangers experienced by working class women who mixed the 'Devils Porridge' - cordite paste for munitions.