Sandhead

Sandhead is a small village in Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland. It was one of the nine administrative 'regions' of mainland Scotland created in 1975 by the Local Government etc. Act 1973...

, south west Scotland

Scotland

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. It overlooks Luce Bay

Luce Bay

Luce Bay is a large bay in Wigtownshire in southern Scotland. The bay is 20 miles wide at its mouth and is bounded by the Rhins of Galloway to the west and the Machars to the east....

, 7 miles south of Stranraer

Stranraer

Stranraer is a town in the southwest of Scotland. It lies in the west of Dumfries and Galloway and in the county of Wigtownshire.Stranraer lies on the shores of Loch Ryan on the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland...

. 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

RAF West Freugh

RAF West Freugh is a Royal Air Force station located in Wigtownshire, five miles south east of Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland....

Amenities

• Tigh Na Mara Hotel and Restaurant, serves the village as a pub, restaurant and hotel
• Locally owned and run shop and Post Office
  Post office
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• Primary school
• Church of Scotland
  Church of Scotland
  The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....
  
   church, in the parish of Stoneykirk
  Stoneykirk
  Stoneykirk is a small village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland. It sits in the heart of the Rhins of Galloway, south of Stranraer. The the A716 runs through part of the village. The village developed around the village's church , with a number of small cottages...
  
  
• 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
  Stranraer
  Stranraer is a town in the southwest of Scotland. It lies in the west of Dumfries and Galloway and in the county of Wigtownshire.Stranraer lies on the shores of Loch Ryan on the northern side of the isthmus joining the Rhins of Galloway to the mainland...
  
  
• Woodlea Tearoom, converted from the Sandhead's old School opened in 2008