Dumfries & Galloway


While there are at least two first-class photographers operating in Dumfries & Galloway, I don't think there's anyone with a better collection of pictures of the hill ground. The Galloway Hills (sometimes called the Galloway Highlands) are a ring of 2000ft tops including the Merrick and the Rhinns of the Kells, surrounding an area of granite slabs lochs and bog with Craignaw, the Dungeon, Mullwarchar and Loch Enoch. This is the finest, but not the only, hill ground of the region. To the south lies Cairnsmore of Fleet, and eastwards are the grassy and somewhat unexciting Carsphairn Hills with their windfarms. Eastwards again, in Dumfriesshire, are the Lowthers and the coastal granite lump of Criffel. A corner of the Moffat Hills, including Hart Fell, also lies within our region. A MAP is on my webpage dedicated to Walking the Lowther Hills, my very old guidebook to the area.



Nithsdale from Auchenleck Hill



Criffel from Wardlaw


Loch Enoch and Merrick from Mullwarchar


Needle's Eye, Sandyhills



'Look North' (Andy Goldsworthy)


descending Laght Hill to Comb Head


Thornhill Cross


Buchan Hill, to Merrick


Loch Trool from Gairland Burn path


Turn Hill, Glenbo Hass from east ridge of Black Hill


Round Loch, Dungeon Hill, Merrick, from Millfire


Queensberry from Capel Water


Clyde Windfarm from Annanhead Hill


Saddle Yoke and Moffatdale


on Saddle Yoke


Loch Skeen from White Coomb


Redstone Rig, to Rhinns of Kells, Loch Enoch


Sweetheart Abbey
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