Creetown to Kirkmabreck Quarry - Wigtown Walks and Talks

Tuesday the 7th of April 2015

I decided to take a walk with the Wigtown Walks and Talks group today.

The walk leader almost always is the amiable Tony Brotherton who has many walks logged with Walking World

It's from Creetown to the middle of the Kirkmabreck quarries.

I've been this way with the ramblers in the past.

2008 Walk

2010 Walk

We started at Kirkmabreck Church in Creetown.

Here's a few pictures.

Kirkmabreck Parish Church Creetown

Larg Cottage and Larg Farm Road

Lambs galore today

Lower slopes Larg Hill

River Cree views

View across Wigtown Bay to West Kirkland and Culquhirk north of Wigtown.

Royal Observer Corps Bunker

Also known as Nuclear Monitoring Posts

Here's a photograph I took in 2008

(Maybe 30 feet rather than the 40 feet I thought, things always look longer from a height)

Kirkmabreck Quay

View to Castle Point near Garlieston

Tide out Wigtown Bay

A short ascent

Underground water channel

Remnants of quarry tramway system.

There appears to be a lot of iron under the surface.

The middle of the three large Kirkmabreck quarries

I went exploring !

Tramway Rope Wheel ?

Narrow Gauge Rail and other Iron

Return

Shepherd, quad bike and sheep

River Cree and Minnigaff Hills view.

River Cree view

Descent back towards Creetown

Decided to take this panorama..............................

...............then squashed it !!

Almost an oil painting perhaps.

(A bit of fun anyway)

The door and knee of Cairnsmore behind Larg Farm

A very enjoyable morning out was concluded at the

Prospectors Pantry

A bygone age - Kirkmabreck

Tuesday the 10th of February

It was a dull, dreary and murky day as I parked up close to Bagbie Sheds.

I'd decided I wanted to take a look at the old Kirkmabreck Church and Burial Ground 

and then onto the now defunct granite quarry whose stone built 

Liverpool's Albert Dock 

I walked here with the Ramblers in March 2011

Because of the dullness of the day, I've made all the pictures black and white.

It seemed the thing to do. 

Lots of pictures, very little description.

The first batch of pictures are from the church and graveyard ruins 

The central monument is to

Dr Thomas Brown the noted Scottish metaphysician, moral philosopher and poet.

After leaving the churchyard I headed uphill

I took this selfie for size comparison.

There's a lot of stone up here.

I wonder what this building was, there's a few initials on the walls

A lone building on high

A blog plug to any passing aircraft

I was intrigued when I blew up the previous picture. I must zoom in the next time.

There appears to be a ladder and possible a manhole.

Is that a large drainage pipe underneath I wonder ?

There's an interesting interview with a former quarryman Robert Ross on this page

A regional ethnology

Before heading back to the car, I got a few pictures of the surrounding area.

Cambrett

The Cree Shoreline

My best picture of the day

The only sunshine of the day

Bagbie Standing Stone

An old gatepost ?

Back at the Glebe, Snowy still stands.

Bye for now.