Dalswinton Estate Wander.

Walk Details

Walk on 22nd June 2014
Location - Dalswinton Estate, Nr Auldgirth, Dumfriesshire.
Total distance walked 3.50 miles
Surface - mixed - some tarmac, dirt tracks and some grass.
What did we see - ducks, bulls, wild flowers, red bridge, fisherman's hut.
Susan's rating - nice easy walking, flat.  Only problem may be that one of the fields the path goes through has a sign saying beware of the bull.  We did not see any bull but went round the edge of another field anyway, just in case.  So care needed perhaps.
Oh and as with all the walks featured in the blogs, use your common sense and walk with due care and attention and at your own risk.  I am only describing these walks as they were on the days I/we did them.
Follow the country code at all times.  Leave no litter and respect other peoples space and property.


Dalswinton Estate is a great place to walk the walk described here is only one of the combinations that can be put together to make walks of differing lengths.  So I will more or less photo blog this one. My advice is go wander about, see where the roads take you, just remember the way you went out so that you can come back to same way if in any doubt.

Start point.

Whether coming in from Dumfries or the Auldgirth side you turn down at the Single Lodge Cottage and continue past the garden and plant centre coming in along the side of the little loch to the parking space.  There is a little box for donations, it's nice to pop something in. The money goes to a good cause.

We followed the tarmac road round to Bankfoot Farm.

Just past Bankfoot Farm we turned up this track and through the Railway Arch.

Once through the arch we turned left down this track and kept on going.

I had climbed over the stile before I noticed a gate, typical really, I never have been one to take the easy or most obvious route.

 This is a delightful walk along the riverbank.  Very well kept which makes for easy walking.

The structure you can see in the middle of the picture is the Fishermen's Hut.  From here you can carry straight on along the road past the Red Bridge, keep going and you will come to Sandbed Farm house, keep on the track and in about 100m or so you will come to a fork in the road.  One road leads round to the front of the big house and the other brings you back to the tarmac road in the rear of the big house.  We cut across the field back to the railway bridge and back past Bankfoot.  We then turned up left to Drum Loch.  It's signposted a the fork in the road and then again a bit further on.

 

From here we walked along the path, being careful not to let the dogs near the water and cause upset to the fisherman who was there.  

The path leads round to the main loch in front of the big house and back to our starting out point. 

There are many more photos of the walks around Dalswinton which unfortunately will have to wait to be posted as these ones have taken an age to post tonight.   I may add another blog covering more of the estate soon, so watch this space.