Our house was once the Old School House for Ravenstone School and is set in beautiful rolling countryside yet only a few miles from some of Scotland's best-undiscovered beaches. We are situated in the heart of The Machars four miles (6.4km) from the Royal Burgh of Whithorn, the centre for early Christianity with its priory and archaeological dig.
The quiet Monreith Beach - adjacent is a 9 hole golf course.
Physgill Glen - a walk taking you down to the sea and access to St Ninian's Cave and coastal cliff walk.
Near-by are the villages of Port William with an attractive harbour; Garlieston (on Wigtown Bay) where the Mulberry Harbours were tested and which played a crucial roll in the D-Day landings. The Isle of Whithorn is a picturesque fishing village with coastal walks and spectacular views of the Isle of Man.
Within easy motoring distance there are many gardens for keen horticulturists such as Castle Kennedy, Glenwhan, Cally Gardens near Gatehouse of Fleet and the Logan Botanical Gardens south of Portpatrick. Or you can just relax and marvel at the plants that thrive in our mild Gulf Stream climate.
For those with an interest in bird watching our varied terrain of hills, moors, farmland and coastal scenery provide a habitat for many different species to captivate both the keen ornithologist as well as the causal viewer. At Wigtown there is a visitor centre overlooking Wigtown Bay Nature Reserve and if we are lucky our nesting pair of Osprey's will return to breed. Visitors can view their activities in the nest via a camera link from spring to late summer.
If books are your passion then Wigtown is the place for you as Scotland's Booktown. For the active visitor there are country, woodland and coastal walks; cycle routes and miles of quite lanes to explore. There are golf courses where holiday visitors are welcome as well as the distillery at Bladnoch.
If its the hills you want, then Galloway Forest Park is only 25-30 miles to the north where you can find Merrick the highest hill in the Southern Uplands.
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