Self-catering holiday homes: Dumfries & Galloway cottage

Make a holiday property for let or loch side cottage in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland your home away from home

Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland’s most southerly county, is a natural marvel. The coastline is long, sandy and peaceful, the perfect place to relax in the fresh sea air, and the countryside is wild and inspiring, with beautiful, timeless lochs beside which you can feel any stress simply dissolve. There could be nothing finer than the feeling of waking from your slumber in a Dumfries and Galloway loch side cottage, looking out over the water and wondering what the day will hold.

Things to do in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

History, folklore and culture go hand in hand in the region, and you will not be able to resist relaxing into local lifestyles when you take one of the self catering Dumfries and Galloway properties to let. Dumfries and Galloway holidays a fantastic mix of activity, scenery and wildlife, and throughout the county are a great range of attractions to explore, from the wilds of the Galloway Forest Park, home to wild goat, eagle and red kite, to Dundrennan Abbey, Robert Burn’s House to Dunskey Gardens and Maze.

There are over 200 miles of coastline in Dumfries and Galloway, home to a huge variety of bird and animal life, especially wildfowl. Sailing and windsurfing holidays thrive from Dumfries and Galloway properties for let on the coast, but it is the many lochs that adorn the countryside that are a real sporting haven. The whole of Dumfries and Galloway is a maze of waterways, with lochs, rivers and reservoirs creating a fishing haven of the highest quality. There are five major fishing centres in the county, and fishermen are beginning to flock to self catering Dumfries and Galloway cottages for precisely this reason. A Dumfries and Galloway loch side cottage is a family favourite, as activity is rife. Sailing, fishing, windsurfing, raft building and canoeing all thrive from Dumfries and Galloway loch side cottages.

Properties to rent in Dumfries and Galloway are a sensational base for walking and horse riding holidays. With 200 miles of coastal paths, vast open moors and ancient, majestic forests in abundance. The Dumfries and Galloway beaches are wonderful for walking during the winter months, with waves crashing onto the sand, seabirds soaring overhead and dramatic cliffs forming the skyline. The most famous walking route in Dumfries and Galloway, the Southern Upland Way, takes in some of the most beautiful Scottish landscapes on its 212 mile route.

There are more than 30 Dumfries and Galloway golf courses to play from accommodation in the area. The Dumfries and Galloway golf course range from windswept links courses in Stranraer and Southerness to the scenic parkland courses of Wigtownshire County and Colvend.

Places to visit on holiday in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Stranraer is the largest town in the south west of Scotland, and is the main port of Dumfries and Galloway. The town dates back over 500 years, and is a magnificent place to take self catering Dumfries and Galloway accommodation for beach holidays and golfing breaks.

Cheap flights to Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Holiday rental properties to let in Dumfries and Galloway are magnificently easy to reach, Edinburgh (EDI) and Glasgow (GLA) airports are both within two hours of a self catering Dumfries and Galloway loch side cottage, and there are daily ferries from Ireland arriving into Stranraer. Dumfries and Galloway is just 3 hours by train from Manchester too.

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