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Thornhill

This lovely village, with its wide main street and pollarded trees, has a French feel to it, and was laid out in 1714 by the Duke of Queensberry. At the crossroads in the middle of the village is a monument surmounted by a winged horse, a symbol of the Queensberry family. In a field to the west of the village, and close to the bridge over the Nith, is the 15th century Boatford Cross, associated with the ferry and ford that preceded the bridge.

Three miles north of the village, and to the west of the A702, are the remains of 15th century Morton Castle, situated romantically on a tongue of land jutting out into Morton Loch. A castle of some kind has stood here since the 12th century, though the present castle was built by the Douglases, who were the Earls of Morton.

Against the wall of a building in East Morton Street in Thornhill, is the bust of Joseph Laing Waugh, Thornhill’s own novelist and poet, who set some of his books, written in lowland Scots, in and around the village.