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Lochhouse is ideally positioned in the center of beautiful Southern Uplands of Scotland, surrounded by nature reserves, rolling hills and country that is open but just a short walk through the appealing tourist city of Moffat. The city of Moffat is a mecca for mountain walkers and tourists with in a conservation area with rich borders history. A gathering place of the Southern Upland Way, the Annandale Method as well as the various Moffat walks. Exactly what better method tospend the daythan walking the hills, taking in the websites and scenery, or hitting the area shops andunwinding that is then relaxing your personal hot spa spa, overlooking your own personal loch before enjoying an evening meal in one of the towns host of great eating places, then retiring to your personal castle. Find out about our history by pressing here Not sure where we're situated? Then check out our areas page  

Facilities in the Bunkhouse include bunks for approximately 18 individuals in two rooms (you will need a sleeping case), with two toilets, a shower, and a kitchen. There is an oven/hob in an outside annex that is external to the bunk house. It is possible to stay round a campfire overlooking the pond.

Barbeques welcome!

Parking is free and private. Rivox is accessed via a road that is private, the B7076 (follow the signs for Middlegill and get underneath the railway bridge, cross the Cloffin Burn and keep on going until such time you understand, turn fully off). The street is employed daily by 2WD vehicles, but care must certainly be taken with ground clearance.

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Rivox bunkhouse is a base that is ideal for skygazing, walking, mountain-biking, or staying overnight whenever biking between John OGroats and Lands-End, JOGLE, or LEJOG! 

The farm is scheduled within a thousand hectares of forestry and enjoys a large variety of wildlife, with Red squirrels, Black grouse, Goshawk, Owls, Otters, Badgers, and streams with water that is clean of air pollution that affects sensitive invertebrates. 

With many miles of personal Forestry Commission roadways surrounding the farm, the area is ideal to explore by bicycle or by foot while never having to negotiate stiles or challenging terrain.

Rivox Bunkhouse

Corncockle Estate

Luxury lodges with kingsize beds, ensuite shower rooms, home with anything you'll need and wood stove that is burning. Outside you have got yours personal garden with furniture, BBQ, fire bowl as well as your individual timber fired tub that is hot.

Glendinning Farm Cottages - Jamestown Cottage

 Jamestown Cottage is a charming stone-built that is conventional, beautifully furnished and prepared to a higher standard to rest up to 5 people in 2 bedrooms. The cottage is situatedclose tothe gleaming Meggat Water into the heart associated with the rolling Eskdale hills just 10 kilometers northwest regarding the border that is historic of Langholm. Surrounded bysome regarding the upland scenery that is best in Southern Scotland, the cottage offers trendy and comfortable accommodation with luxury soft furnishing, craftsman-built kitchen and open log fire in addition to a private gardens and pavedoutdoor seating area. Well-liked by walkers, visitors additionally enjoy watching wildlife that is amazing learning about the traditional year-round tasks of a conventional mountain farm, orexploring the colourfulhistoryand archaeological options that come with the region.  

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The Kings Arms Hotel

The Kings Arms resort was constructed within the very early Century that is seventeenth and visited by numerous celebrities, including Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745, Robbie Burns and Sir Walter Scott in 1813. Fortunately, the hotel is entirely refurbished since those times! We now have retained numerous conventional features including log that is cosy both in the key club and front lounge.The Hotel has catered for weary travellers considering that the times when horse drawn coaches would go through the wide passageway to your stable beyond (the undercover parking area today)The original beamed buildings and tack space are actually the comfortable Lounge Bar while the Restaurant where today's guests can enjoy tasty Bar meals beside blazing logs fires.Meeting spaces are around for parties from 10 to 120 people. The Sir Walter Scott Suite catches the eye of functions and weddings for approximately 120 people and bridal that is complete can be obtained. The hotel is fully centrally heated, our comfortable en-suite rooms offer tea and coffee making facilities, direct dial telephones and flat screen electronic televisions.Lockerbie is a perfect holiday base as it is main for all interesting places to visit and pursuits to follow. We have been surrounded by golf courses at Dumfries, Moffat, Powfoot and of course Lockerbie all of which will examine your skills.Fishing is plentiful at Castle Loch, Lochmaben or regarding the rivers Annan, Dryfe, Esk or Milk. A visit to Drumlanrig and Caerlaverock Castles, Traquair House and Sweetheart Abbey is a must if you wish to tour at a leisurely rate. For Robert Burns fans, Dumfries is the accepted place for you personally together with cottage plus the museum. All of this, and now we are only a half mile through the M74 with speedy use of Glasgow 72 kilometers, Edinburgh 72 kilometers and The Lakes 50 miles.

Heatheryhaugh lodges have been in business for almost 40 years, the four bungalows were build in th early eighties by Brian and Martie Larmour with the help of the Scottish tourist board in the days when self catering in Moffat was almost non-existent.

They never looked back and they have been welcoming guests ever since they retired in 2015, taking great delight  in the fact that many of them became regulars and some of them even friends

Now the lodges are run by Ben and Lydia Larmour, their son and daughter in law, who  continue to welcome old, some of them 2nd and 3rd generation, and new guests with the same hospitality and pleasure as Brian and Martie did before them.

Come and see for yourselves why so many return to the lodges time and time again.

You will be made very welcome.

Groups of adventurers exploring the Grey Mare's Tail Nature Reserve can reward their perseverance with a stroll behind the 200ft waterfall that tumbles from Loch Skeen into the Moffat liquid Valley!It's actually the 5th highest in the UK, and nearby (it, it's pretty steep) is the White Coomb, the best hill in Dumfriesshire.A recognised Special Area of Conservation, that is a haven for mountain walkers, botanists and wildlife enthusiasts whom come to observe the rich number of a number of southern Scotland's many rare upland flowers in addition to peregrines, band ouzels and instead feral wild goats though it generally does not seem so near whenever one is climbing! Most useful not to approach.Little historians, too, are interested to find evidence of Iron Age settlers and the Covenanters have been here into the century that is seventeenth plus an Iron Age earthwork called The Tail Burn Fort, also referred to as the Giant's Grave! It ought to be stressed it is simply a name however, there is nothing to right here do with tombs.Plus, there's interpretative news in the visitor centre and a wealth of local information. Great HQ for your entire day's adventure!

National Trust for Scotland

Castles and Battlefields, gardens and glens, islands and wildlife...enjoyed and protected.

Grey Mares Tail Nature Reserve

Situated in idyllic environments facility Park provides activities for all your family members, from sailing which boasts a wide variety of ships from kayaks and rowing to swan pedalos and youngsters' favourite Fernando the dragon pedalo.Other activities supplied are a full 18 hole putting green, play park, and their one of a form water that is interactive called Moffatasia, where young ones can play from day to night between your splashes and squirts while moms and dads relax and consume the environmental surroundings. new for 2014 is a childrens playpark that has been created for young ones between 3 and 8 years.

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At The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway you can travel to Scotland's highest villages and luxuriate in a run using the measure that is slim which runs from Leadhills to Wanlockhead. Britain's adhesion railway that is highest, reaching 1498ft above sea degree!Plus, explore the lead mining museum at Wanlockhead and also the oldest membership collection at Leadhills. Marvel at the skills associated with lead miners who dug their shafts to below ocean level and excavated miles of tunnels in their seek out the lead ore while the silver it included.

Welcome to Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway

Welcome to Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway. Britain's Highest Adhesion Railway

The Leadhills and Wanlockhead Railway

Museum of Lead Mining, also known as Hidden Treasures, occur the picturesque town of Wanlockhead (the greatest town in Scotland), is a wonderful solution to learn about lead mining within the eighteenth century, and experience the excitement of going underground!Make the right path over the village paths to 2 miners cottages that demonstrate just how miners actually lived, take a trip into Lochnell Mine to learn how the miners worked, and learn all about the beam machines that used to pump the water out when the mines became too deep to drain from gravity alone!Within the Visitor Centre there was stroll through exhibition, which tells the story of how lead ore had been won at the face, while the processes it had to become the lead products which is know today. Right here you will observe the apparatus that varies pumps employed by the miners to win the ore and keep carefully the water levels down.Also on display are some of the very spectacular minerals based in the Lowther Hills, an area that accounts for 1% of all of the known minerals these days! You can look for concealed gold your self during July and August each year by trying your fortune at Gold Panning, with the aid of friendly and guides which can be enthusiastic. The Museum is unique in Scotland since it may be the only lead that is former ready to accept the general public.

Only Underground Mine Tour in Scotland

Explore our 300 year old mine - the only underground mine tour in Scotland.

Museum of Lead Mining

Lockerbie Ice Rink is a place that is excellent families who want activities that are enjoyable, and that may be competitive or simply just a pleasurable way of keeping fit.Curling is a normal and tactical Scottish game played by 2 teams of 4 individuals who offers individuals of all ages an interesting way to keep active and possess enjoyable. There are lots of opportunities for budding curlers that are little discover and improve their game, with Mini Rockers for six to eight 12 months olds, After School Club for young ones aged 9 to 11 yrs . old, additional class Curlers for 12 to 16 yr old, plus Lockerbie younger Curlers Club for a long time 11 to 21 years of age. Wheelchair curling can be available.You can skate for family fun and enjoyment at public skating sessions with ice discos, or you can discover the abilities of figure skating with one of the friendly and coaches that are completely qualified. Public skating is available most weekends, although mornings are reserved at under 16s only.So what are you currently awaiting saturday? Get the skates on!

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Corncockle Estate

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