Ardwell

Ardwell
Scots Gaelic: *Àrd Bhaile*
Ardwell Scots Gaelic: Àrd Bhaile;
	Ardwell Location within Scotland
Population	123 (2001 Census)
Cooncil area	Dumfries and Galloway;
Lieutenancy area	Wigtown;
Kintra	Scotland
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	Stranraer
Postcode destrict	DG9
Diallin code	01776-860
Police	Scots
Fire	Scots
Ambulance	Scots
EU Pairlament	Scotland
UK Pairlament	Dumfries and Galloway;
Scots Pairlament	Galloway and West Dumfries;
	Leet o places UK Scotland 54°46′16″N 4°56′28″W / 54.771°N 4.941°WCoordinates: 54°46′16″N 4°56′28″W / 54.771°N 4.941°W

Ardwell is a veelage in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It lies on the shores o Luice Bay in the soothren pairt o the Rhins o Gallowa. The A716 road tae Drummore an the Mull o Gallowa passes throu the veelage. The anely ither street is Ardwell Park, a street o new hooses.

The community is served bi the nearby Ardwell Kirk, a wee public kirk wi a belltour, built in 1900-02.^[1]

Mony o the hooses is awnt yet bi Ardwell Estates, an Ardwell Hoose is locatit aboot hauf mile wast o the veelage in the grunds o Ardwell Gairden an leukin ootower Ardwell Pownd.

In the grunds o Ardwell Hoose, on a rig abuin the road, is the remayns o a medieval motte; the castle bailey micht hae stuiden til the north.^[2] Forby, sooth o the kirk is the ruins o Killaser Castle,^[3]^[4] the ancestoral hame o the Clan McCulloch that umwhile haudit Ardwell,^[5] Stoneykirk, Rhinns, Wigtounshire.

Near Hei Ardwell, on the ither side o the peninsula, is the remeens o Doon Castle, the best example o an Airn Age broch in Dumfries an Gallowa.^[6]^[7]

Ardwel uised tae haud the Leek Fair whaur plants wis sauld.^[5]

Ardwell Gairdens[eedit | eedit soorce]

Ardwell Gairdens is a 970 acre gairden surroondin the 18t-century Ardwell Hoose.^[8]^[9] It haes a wawed gairden an a lairge pownd that haes deuks an swans, an it taks aboot a hauf-oor tae walk aroond it.

Thare is access an aw tae Ardwell Kirk (til the wast) an Ardwell veelage (til the east) wi a strand an a boat shap.^[10]

Logan Botanic Gairden[eedit | eedit soorce]

Logan Botanic Gairden, a brainch o the Ryal Botanic Gairden Edinburgh is 2.5 mile bi road fae Ardwell. Logan's myld climate allous a variety o fremmit plants tae growe furth.^[11] Thare is mony beautifu plants that can be foond in a wheen o ither gairdens in Breetain. It haes a widland gairden, a wawed gairden, an a terrace gairden wi an avenue o Chusan palms.