Sandhead

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Sandhead
Sandhead shown within Scotland
Council area	Dumfries and Galloway
Lieutenancy area	Wigtown
Constituent country	Scotland
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stranraer
Postcode district	DG9
Dialling code	01776-830
Police	Dumfries and Galloway
Fire	Dumfries and Galloway
Ambulance	Scottish
European Parliament	Scotland
UK Parliament	Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament	Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
List of places: UK • Scotland

Coordinates: 54°48′N 4°57′W / 54.8, -4.95

Sandhead is a small village in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. It overlooks Luce Bay, 7 miles south of Stranraer. The old main road, named "Main Street", runs through the village, but the A716 now bypasses it with a narrow and twisting carriageway. The village developed as a strip village with a smithy and a school by 1850, and the bay was used for landing lime and later coal.

The village school is situated above the village, and a little north of this is Balgreggan Motte which stands above the A716. The Motte was the first in a line of early castles along the eastern shore of the Rhins. The top was used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Second World War as a lookout point, but in earlier times the castle was made of wood and was inevitably burned to the ground by marauding forces. The village is located nearby to RAF West Freugh

[edit] Amenities

Tigh Na Mara Hotel and Restaurant, serves the village as a pub, restaurant and hotel
Locally owned and run shop and Post Office
Primary school
Church of Scotland church, in the parish of Stoneykirk
Gospel Hall
NHS Dumfries & Galloway Doctor's Surgery
Sandhead Bowling Club, providing lawn bowling
Tearoom
Culmore Bridge Cottages nearby provides Self Catering accommodation.
Sands of Luce Holiday Park, caravan park adjacent to the village and on Sandhead beach.
Two local parks, one with goal posts
Tennis courts, albeit rather derelict
Public toilets
James King 407 Service provides a bus link to Stranraer^[1]

[edit] Images

Sandhead Beach.

Sandhead's Main Street in 2002.

Tigh Na Mara Hotel

v • d • e Places in the Rhins of Galloway, Scotland

North to South

Kirkcolm • Cairnryan • Leswalt • Stranraer • Castle Kennedy • Lochans • Portpatrick • Stoneykirk • Sandhead • Ardwell • Port Logan • Kirkmaiden • Drummore • Mull of Galloway