Country Scotland Post town Stranraer Dialling code 01776-830 Local time Tuesday 10:08 AM UK parliament constituency Dumfries and Galloway | Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district DG9 Police Scottish Council area Dumfries and Galloway | |
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Weather 5°C, Wind SW at 39 km/h, 71% Humidity Scottish parliament Galloway and West Dumfries Lieutenancy areas Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtownshire | ||
Old photographs sandhead scotland
Sandhead is a small village in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. It overlooks Luce Bay, 7 miles south of Stranraer. The old main road, named "Main Street", runs through the village, but the A716 now bypasses it with a narrow and twisting carriageway. The village developed as a strip village with a smithy and a school by 1850, and the bay was used for landing lime and later coal.
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- Old photographs sandhead scotland
- Map of Sandhead Stranraer UK
- Sandhead to the mull of galloway wigtownshire scotland
- Amenities
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Map of Sandhead, Stranraer, UK
The village school is situated above the village, and a little north of this is Balgreggan Motte which stands above the A716. The Motte was the first in a line of early castles along the eastern shore of the Rhins. The top was used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Second World War as a lookout point, but in earlier times the castle was made of wood and was inevitably burned to the ground by marauding forces. The village is located nearby to RAF West Freugh.