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Penninghame
Penninghame is located in Dumfries and Galloway
Penninghame
Penninghame
Location within Dumfries and Galloway
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  • Dumfries and Galloway
Lieutenancy area
  • Wigtown (Wigtownshire)
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  • Dumfries and Galloway
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  • Galloway and Upper Nithsdale
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54°57′28″N 4°29′07″W / 54.9579°N 4.4853°W / 54.9579; -4.4853

Penninghame in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, is a civil parish area, 8 miles (N. W.) from Wigtown. The area is approx 16 miles in length, and from 5 to 6 miles' width, bounded on the north and east by the River Cree, and on the west by the Bladnoch; comprising nearly 38,000 acres, of which 12,000 were arable, 600 woodland and plantations, 1600 meadow, and the remainder hill pasture, moorland, moss, etc.[1]

The civil parish area of Penninghame is bounded on the south by the civil parish area of Wigtown and on the west by Kirkcowan on the north by the civil parish area of Colmonell and on the east by the civil parish area of Minnigaff.[2]

There are numerous nature trails nearby, managed on behalf of the state by Forest Enterprise.[3]

  1. ^ Parish of Penninghame Map
  2. ^ A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland (1846). http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43470
  3. ^ Forestry Commission – Galloway Forest Park

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