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Dumfries Attractions
Dumfries was founded as a Royal Burgh in 1186 and is a place to spend the day, seeing all the attractions,
a place that Robert Burns called home.
Things to see include, Robert Burns House Mausoleum, Rose Garden
Grave and Statue, Devorgilla Bridge, Old Bridge Museum, Midsteeple,
Victoria Cross recipients memorial
Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura
Aviation Museum, Robert Burns Centre
Moat Brae House and Garden
Greyfriars Church and the Savings Bank.
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The list below is the attractions pinpointed on the map of Dumfries and Galloway
Devorgilla Bridge
There has been a bridge over the River Nith since circa 1265.
A stone bridge replaced the original wooden structure circa 1460.
The Devorgilla Bridge named after Lady Devorgilla of Galloway niece of
William the Lion. Her son was to become king (John Baliol) in 1292.
She had many structures and buildings built, one of which is the Sweetheart Abbey circa 1274 the last Cistercian abbey to be founded in Scotland.
Lady Devorgilla was one of the most influential women of her age in Britain
born 1210 and died 1290. Buried in Sweetheart Abbey near Dumfries.
Old Bridge House
The House at the end of Devorgilla Bridge also known as
"The House at Bridgend" was built in 1660 and is the oldest remaining house in Dumfries.
The House has had many uses a meeting hall, house, tavern
and now a museum with many interesting artefacts.
Savings Bank Founder
Dr Henry Duncan was the founder of the Savings Bank Movement in 1810.
Born in 1774 he moved to Ruthwell in 1799 as the Parish minister.
The first Savings bank was opened eleven years later in the present cottage were the museum
is situated in Ruthwell, Dumfries, DG1 4NN today. The savings bank he opened was the forerunner for the TSB
and all savings bank worldwide.
Robert Burns Dumfries
Robert Burns first moved to Dumfries when he came on the visit in 1787.
Dumfries Town Council made him an honorary Burgess.
In May 1793 the family moved to a better quality house in Mill Street now called Burns Street where he wrote songs which included “my love is like a red, red Rose” and “man’s a man for all that”
His days in Dumfries were spent as an excise man usually dressed in a decent suit of dark clothes.
He had a distinguished head with large dark brown eyes and a high forehead,
his features were hard and he had a slight stoop.
At nearly 5 foot 10 ins (1.8 m) in height he was well known around town.
Robert Burns died in Dumfries in his house in Mill Street on the 21st July 1796.
Robert Burns and family lived in Bank Street Dumfries.
He was employed to collect taxes,
The garden across from the house has The poem Red Red Rose on a stone plinth and there are
2 murals on the wall.
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Jean Armour and Son Statue
Robert Burns Statue Dumfries
The Robert Burns statue erected to his memory in Dumfries was unveiled by Lord Roseberry on the 6th April 1882 and is sculptured from Sicilian Marble.
Jean Armour was born in Mauchline Ayrshire on
(25 February 1765 and died 26 March 1834).
She married Robert Burns on 5 August 1788.
She was known as the "Belle of Mauchline".
They moved to Ellisland Farm where they stayed for 5 years until 1791 when they moved to Dumfries,
where they stayed till their deaths.
Greyfriars Church Dumfries
On what was the site of Dumfries Castle which was destroyed circa 1320 the First Church was built in 1772. The present Greyfriars Church was built in 1868, which overlooks the site of the famous murder in the original Church of the Greyfriars, committed by Robert the Bruce over the crown of Scotland, John III Comyn Lord of Badenoch in 1306. This was the beginning of the war of Independence that finish at Bannockburn. The plaque on the site of where the murder took place is at the bus stop across from the Robert Burns Statue.
Old Greyfriars Church
(Previous site Plaque)
inscription:
Here stood the monastery of Grey Friars where on Thursday 10th February 1306
ROBERT THE BRUCE
aided by
SIR ROGER KIRKPATRICK
Slew THE RED COMYN and opened the final stage of the war for Scottish Independence
which ended victoriously on
The Field of BANNOCKBURN 1314
"I MAC SICCAR"
Erected by the citizens of
Dumfries & The Saltire Society
Charles 3rd Duke of
Queensberry and Dover Monument
The column of about 30 feet high (9.7 m). On one side of the pedestal is a device representing a female figure leaning on an urn and on another side of the same is the following inscription
Plaque inscription
This Column Sacred to the memory of Charles Duke of Queensberry and Dover
Was erected by The County of Dumfries.
As a monument of their veneration for the character of that illustrious nobleman:
Whose exalted virtues rendered him the
ornament of society and whose numerous acts of public beneficence and private charity
endeared him to his country
Ob. 22nd Oct. 1778; Aet. 80".
Midsteeple Dumfries
The town-house or Midsteeple, which was built in 1705-8. There are two carved panels. One is of the royal arms of Scotland, with unicorn supporters. The lower panel shows the winged figure of
St Michael, patron of the burgh. These carvings are circa 1650. There were a further 2 built into the wall in 1909 which were from the old prison circa 1580. One has the initials H R (Herbert Raining) and R MK (Robert MacKinnell) with a pair of shackles and a bow and arrow and the word BAILLIES, who held that office in the 1570s. The other shows a shield bearing a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys, with the town 's motto A LORJ BURNE. 1830, and a cast-iron distance-plate of 1827.
Last Hanging in Scotland
Buccleuch Street Dumfries
The last man to be publicly hanged in Scotland, was Robert Smith on Buccleuch Street Dumfries 12 May 1868.
His death mask is on public display in Dumfries Museum.
Mary Timney (27-year-old) on the 29 April 1862, also at Buccleuch Street in Dumfries was the last woman to be publicly executed in Scotland.
Norway House
Norge Hus
1940 - 1945
This is to commemorate the site of the former Norway House Headquarters and cultural Centre of the exiled Norwegians in Dumfries during the second World War
erected in lasting friendship between our nations.
June 2005
Robert Burns Rock Dumfries
Robert Burns Rock was unveiled by HRH Princess Royal on 9th July 2013 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Ca' the Yowes
Robert Burns Memorial Stone
("Drive the ewes to the hills") is a Scottish folk song by Robert Burns from 1794
St Michael’s and South Parish Church
St. Michaels Church in 1746. This is where Robert Burns was buried and now is where his Mausoleum can be seen.
St Michael's Church Graveyard
Map of Graves of Friends
of Robert Burns
Robert Burns Grave and Mausoleum
The building of the mausoleum was completed in September 1817.
The monument inside the mausoleum is the statue of the Muse Coila
(Coila was the muse of Robert Burns, who he created as a poetic device for his poem The Vision)
She floats above Burns with his plough.
Robert Burns and his to sons were reinterred (1817) under the floor of the new mausoleum. His wife Jean Armour is also buried in the mausoleum ( March 1834) , and his son Robert, (May 1857).
Robert Burns Original Grave
Camera Obscura and Museum
The highest point in the town of Dumfries Corbelly Hill was once in a separate area known as Maxwelltown. Where a large windmill stood, built in 1798. A Camera Obscura was installed in 1836 and opened 2 years later. This is said to be the oldest working Camera Obscura in the world. The museum was built in 1862 using the windmill tower as the Camera Obscura. The museum was attached to the tower and houses many interesting exhibits including a bicycle made in 1839 by Kirkpatrick Macmillan the inventor of the rear-wheel driven bicycle. Also a cast of the original skull of Robert the Bruce from Dunfermline Abbey. Outside the museum is a cannon and a Open octagonal painted stone Tuscan temple to John Sinclair with statues of Old Mortality And His Pony.
Dr John Sinclair
On 25th October 1840, Dr. John Sinclair was thrown from a horse drawn gig between Southampton and Titchfield and died of his injuries. He was buried in the Portsmouth Garrison Chapel graveyard. The previous day he had won a raffle for a statue of Old Mortality and his Pony, based on the characters in the Sir Walter Scott novel of the same name. His parents erected the statue as a memorial, which can still be seen as part of Dumfries Museum in Scotland
Russian cannon captured during the Crimean War circa 1855.
Maxwelltown War Memorial
The inscription on the front is,
“Pro Patria in memory of the men of Maxwelltown and the Parish of Troqueer
who fell in the Great War 1914-1919.”
Private James Mackenzie V.C.
2ND BATTALION SCOTS GUARDS, KILLED IN ACTION
AT ROUGES BANCS, FRANCE, 19TH DECEMBER, 1914, AGED 27,
WHILE RESCUING A WOUNDED COMRADE UNDER HEAVY FIRE.
FOR A SIMILAR ACT OF CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY
ON THE SAME DAY HE WAS AWARDED THE
VICTORIA CROSS.
James Edward Tait VC MC
James Edward Tait (1888-1918) was born on 27th May 1888 in Maxwelltown (Dumfries)
James Tait received the Military Cross
for his conduct on 9th April 1917, the day the Canadian Corps attacked and captured Vimy Ridge in France.
Lieutenant James Tait earned the Victoria Cross posthumously for his actions while serving with the 78th Infantry Battalion, CEF during the first four days of the Battle of Amiens, 8th to 11th August 1918.
Robert Burns Ellisland Farm
Robert Burns and family moved to the house in Dumfries in 1793 from the farm they leased after leaving Edinburgh 5 years before.
Visit the farm on the way to Dumfries for a look at where Robert burns wrote many famous songs and poems
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (1747-1792) from Arbigland near Kirkbean, is credited with founding the Us navy in 1775. He joined the Russian navy in 1788 and also attacked Leith at the head of a French Force flying the American flag . In 1777 sailing “ the Ranger “ his capture of the British vessel “Drake “ off the Irish Coast is America’s first recorded naval triumph . He was honoured by the US congress and Ennobled by the French before dying in Paris aged 45 and was later re-interred in Annapolis, Maryland , USA.
Robert Burns Centre
Burgh Church
Norway House
Dumfries Academy
Lochfoot Fountain
John Paul Jones Birthplace Museum
John Paul Jones was a Revolutionary War hero known as the father of the U.S. Navy.
Born in Arbigland Kirkcudbright Scotland in 6th July 1747, John Paul joined the British Merchant Marine at the age of 13 at the age of 27 he fled to America as he murdered a sailor in self-defence on the island of Tobago. Arriving in America he added Jones to his name to hide his identity. He joined the Continental Navy and became the scourge of the British Navy, when the Continental Navy disbanded in 1787 he joined the Russian Navy. He ended his life in France and died in Paris in 1792.
His remains were eventually found in a disused cemetery in Paris and return to America. He lies at rest in a tomb inside the chapel of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
There has been 5 US naval war ships named after John Paul Jones the last being
the USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53) built in 1991.
