Museum of Lead Mining
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Overview
Wanlockhead is Scotland's highest village, set in the beautiful Lowther Hills. Visitors can see miners' cottages, and the miners' library, as well as the 18th-century lead mine. Visitors can also pan for gold.
Features
- Opening Times
- Opening Times: Open Apr-Sep, daily 11-4.30
- Facilities
- Parking onsite
- Parking nearby
- Cafe
About the area
Dumfries and Galloway is a wonderfully undiscovered corner of Scotland – a romantic land of wooded glens, high hills and exposed moorland, haunted by its colourful past and the ghosts of those who fell in fierce and bloody battles. Heading west from Gretna Green you soon reach Dumfries, straddling the River Nith, where you may see red-breasted mergansers in summer.
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