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Historic sites near Dumfries

What is protected, and what is open, within 10 miles of Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway.

1,169 protected sites

Most of these are listed buildings, and most listed buildings are private homes, terraces, walls and milestones rather than places to visit. The scheduled monuments are the older layer: earthworks, ruins, barrows and the remains of things that have no roof left.

Listed buildings
1,065
Scheduled monuments
100
Parks and gardens
4

Counted from Historic Environment Scotland's records on 26 September 2026, within 10 miles of the centre of Dumfries.

8 properties you can visit

Run by Historic Environment Scotland and Historic Houses. These are the places with opening hours and a way in, as opposed to the register entries above.

  • Lincluden Collegiate ChurchHistoric Environment Scotland · Dumfries
  • Sweetheart Abbey & Precinct WallsHistoric Environment Scotland · New Abbey
  • New Abbey Corn MillHistoric Environment Scotland · New Abbey
  • RammerscalesHistoric Houses · Lockerbie
  • Caerlaverock CastleHistoric Environment Scotland · Shearington
  • Lochmaben CastleHistoric Environment Scotland · Lochmaben
  • Drumcoltran TowerHistoric Environment Scotland · Kirkgunzeon
  • Ruthwell CrossHistoric Environment Scotland · Ruthwell

See all of it on one map

Visit History draws every site above on a single map, so you are not checking seven organisations one at a time. It also carries the Environment Agency LiDAR survey, which shows the shape of the ground itself, and six editions of Ordnance Survey mapping from 1885 onwards. Earthworks that are invisible on the ground and unmarked on modern maps are often obvious on both.

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