Galloway House Gardens to Eggerness point

The footing of this walk is moderate within the Gardens and turns to a flat rocky shore to the village of Garlieston, and then a beaten earth track bearing right past Eggerness farm entrance, through farmland and wooded shoreline, which can be uneven.

Begin at the small fenced car park within the Galloway House estate, at the entrance to the Gardens. The shelter in the car park has an information board and an honesty box alongside the start of the various Garden Walks. There are fine specimens of rhododendrons and a rare Handkerchief Tree within the policies, as well as mature woodland, planted in the 18th and 19th Centuries by the Earls of Galloway.

There are multiple routes round the Gardens and some paths are suitable for wheelchair users. The shore route proceeds north (the bay on your right hand) on a flat beaten path, sometimes very close to the shore. You have a view of the bay where the Mulberry Harbour was tested in World War II, for the Normandy Landings, and a view of the rear elevation of Galloway House, once the home to the Earls of Galloway.

Garlieston itself, which you reach from the south, is a planned village, built by the Earls, with elegant curving terraces. If you wish to continue the walk, you proceed northwards through the village (or along the beach) and take the path round the point to Eggerness, where there was once a promontory fort. The route is through a wooded shoreline, which can be uneven and involve some scrambling among rocks. You can continue all the way to Innerwell, whence you can return by road.