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Challoch, by Sandhead, Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland, DG9 9LA - 01776
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For the golfing enthusiast, we are well situated for seven golf courses - with the world famous Turnberry course about an hour's drive north up the coast road. (Local courses include; Dunskey, Portpatrick, Stranraer, Lagganmore, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire County Golf Club.) Gardening fans are well catered for too, and you will find links to some of the best open gardens Scotland can offer on our links page. We are fortunate in that we are very close to Logan Botanic Garden, Ardwell Garden, Castle Kennedy Garden, Glenwhan Garden, Dunskey Garden and the forthcoming (in 2004) Galloway Garden Festival. Enough there to keep even Alan Titchmarch occupied for months! |
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So, whether you want to
wander amidst the peace and quite of the countryside, doze by our log
fire, or undertake something more energetic - golfing, swimming, sailing,
walking - you can find it locally. For the outdoorsmen and women there are
numerous outdoor activities close at hand or a short drive away. Clay
pigeon shooting, sea angling, river and loch fishing, bird watching,
walking along forest trails or hills, golfing, sailing...it is all on
offer. |
From the nearby town of Stranraer, on the shores
of Loch Ryan, there are regular ferries across the Irish Sea to Northern
Ireland - the high speed ferries operating out of Port Rodie and, further
up Loch Ryan, at Cairnryan, can get there in a little over an hour! There
are also regular coach trips across to Northern Ireland during the season,
offering day trips around the Antrim coastline, the Bushmill's Distillery,
the Giant's Causeway and even shopping expeditions into Belfast City -
with its shops, restaurants and zoo. From the harbour in Stranraer one can
take a train to Glasgow or Ayr or a coach to various towns along the A75
towards Dumfries, about 75 miles to the east. 
Our area is blessed with
an absolute wealth of history in a great variety of shapes and formats:
The coastline is littered with Iron Age forts and ancient Castles alike,
at Ardwell Bay there is even the scattered remains of a Broch - the only
one in south western Scotland. The Standing Stones of Glen Terra,
mentioned in a lay of Taliesin, can be found in the hills above Castle
Kennedy (ancestral home of the Kennedy Clan), Loch Ryan still holds
several sections of the Mullberry harbour construct from WW2, there are
stately homes, romantic ruins, brooding castles and towers...! Less than a
mile from Challoch bed and breakfast stand the Kirkmadrine stones - the
earliest Christian inscriptions in Scotland are carved into them.