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Scotland Outdoors

A trip to Galloway

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Mark Stephen and Euan McIlwraith visit Dumfries and Galloway. They find out the history behind Belted Galloways, the cattle synonomous with the area; take a trip through Kirkcudbright on an electric bike, and meet a couple of Russian Orthodox priests who are restoring a castle in the area and running a printing press. They visit Scotland's first Dark Skies park and a willow sculptor whose work has featured in Outlander. Threave Garden is also on their itinerary, not just the garden itself but the bats and osprey who make a home there.

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0:43.0

I'm Mark Stephen. He's you in McElwreath and we're standing at the quayside in Kirkubri

0:47.9

in Dumfries and Galloway.

0:49.6

It is a beautiful place. Loads of wheeves, privately owned shops surrounded by history. We've got

0:55.8

the castle behind me. We've got scallop dredgers

0:58.2

in front of us. It's a delightful

1:00.0

wee port, but you have to come up river

1:01.8

quite far from the sea.

1:03.8

We need to take a long look at Dumfries and Galloway

1:06.0

because a lot of folk really

1:08.1

miss a treat. When they come up the motorway

1:10.3

from England, you should turn left.

1:13.2

D'Anfriac Galloway is unusual in Scotland, is that it has its own kind of cattle, the belted Galloway.

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