📌 Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway
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Torhouse Stone Circle lies close to the B733 Wigtown to Kirkcowan road in the northern part of The Machars peninsula. Also known as King Gauldus’s Tomb, there are 19 granite boulders surrounding three larger ones, graded in height so that the taller ones are all on the southeast side – perhaps designed to align with the moon or sun. Other burial cairns and standing stones in the immediate area suggest that Torhouse was part of something bigger – a 4,000 year-old landscape with a significance now unknown to us.
🌍 Location
📌 By the B733 3 mi west of Wigtown, west of the bridge over the River Nith, 0.5 mi west of Thornhill village centre
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NX 383565
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 54.876976,-4.522518
❌ No public transport within 1 mi
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⌚ Always open
🎫 Free
