📌 Landscape art in Crawick, Dumfries & Galloway
★★★
It used to be an ugly, open cast coal mine; today, the hillside to the north of Sanquhar is the site of a striking landscape art project. The 55-acre work is the brainchild of Charles Jencks, a landscape architect who has also created other Scottish attractions such as The Garden of Cosmic Speculation and parts of Jupiter Artland. Each landform represents a feature or idea from modern cosmology, including the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies, superclusters, comet collisions and the multiverse. Don’t worry: maps you can pick up on arrival explain what all of these things mean. Areas of bare ground and some large spaces between the landforms mean the overall effect isn’t (in our opinion) as aesthetically pleasing as some of Jencks’ other projects, but nevertheless it’s a quirky attraction with, well, universal appeal.
Cosmic Collisions 
Spiral galaxies (left), Supercluster (centre) & Multiverse (right) 
North-South Line 
View from the Belvedere Finger 
View from the northern end of the park 
Rock timeline 
Supercluster (foreground) & Milky Way Galaxy 
Omphalos 
Andromeda (left) & Milky Way galaxies 
North-South Line 
Centre of a spiral galaxy 
Sun Flare & Earth Shield Mosaic 
North-South Line 
Southern viewpoint 
Comet collision 
Overlooking the Multiverse
🌍 Location
📌 By the B740 1 mi north of Sanquhar
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 776116
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.382849,-3.933282
🚌 Bus stops at entrance | 🚆 Sanquhar
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Daily
🎫 £7 adult / £4 child
