The Auldgirth Inn
Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway

New hosts Ian & Christine Mitchell extend a warm welcome to new and previous visitors. This hotel has been popular with anglers and shooters over a long number of years. It is ideally situated for fishing beats on the middle and lower sections of the Nith. Its comfortable non-smoking ensuite bedrooms have all been refurbished recently. Excellent food available lunch & evenings, packed lunches by arrangement. Ample car-parking; drying facilities available. Welcoming log fire in lounge bar in the winter & pleasant beer garden to the front of the Inn in the summer.

Dumfries & Galloway is a vast, largely undiscovered region in the south west where the small indigenous population finds itself greatly outnumbered by sheep. Bordering England, Galloway has seen turbulence and cross border raids and, until quite relatively recent times, was deemed quite lawless. Things have changed now, of course, and the various American connections include the birthplace of John Paul Jones at Arbigland, where the coastal waters of the Solway Firth no doubt inspired the founder of the US Navy. Dumfries & Galloway has a prevailing mildness which allow cabbage palms, tree ferns and other spectacular species to flourish at Logan Botaninc Garden in the Rhins of Galloway. The coastline is warmed by the Atlantic waters of the Gulf Stream.