Low Arvie
Farmhouse Bed & Breakfast in Beautiful Rural Galloway
Corsock
Castle Douglas
Dumfries & Galloway
DG7 3ED

Phone: 01644 440220

E-mail: lowarvie@tiscali.co.uk

Our Farm
The warmest of welcomes awaits you at Low Arvie, our 120 acre farm, set amid the beautiful countryside of rural Galloway.  Our recently extended and refurbished home offers you a comfortable, private guest suite of a double bedroom (with tea/coffee making facilities), bathroom, cosy TV lounge with log fire and conservatory.  Low Arvie offers the peace and tranquillity of a rural setting in open countryside, yet is within easy reach of numerous tourist attractions.  We are situated just over a mile from the village of Corsock, where there are Post Office facilities and a pub (Pringles), which serves meals.

Low Arvie has been the realisation of our dream, celebrated in the recently published book: "The Ladies of Low Arvie".  We invite you to share some of that dream with us.

We would be pleased to help you with your holiday planning, advising on routes and places to stay either before or after your visit to Low Arvie,  to make sure your Scotland experience will be one to treasure

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Low Arvie is a working farm, home to the "Ladies of Low Arvie", our 60 something strong herd of pedigree black Galloway suckler cows and their offspring. 

Mum, with a new addition to our herd of pedigree Galloway cattle

The area offers the tourist a multitude of attractions.   Dumfries & Galloway has 32 golf courses, eighteen of them 18-hole courses and fourteen 9-hole. You can play serious golf or just a few rounds of holiday golf to your heart's content. Off the course, you'll find a warm welcome in the clubhouse or the local pubs and restaurants.

There are numerous cycle trails and the National Cycle Network traverses the region taking in more than 130 miles of stunning scenery, rugged coastline and vast forests. There is also the National Byway and a large number of off road tracks.  Low Arvie is situated on the 7 Stanes world class biking trail.

We are only a short drive from the historic 15th century Drumlanrig Castle , one of Scotland's principal visitor attractions, offering castle tours and guided walks.   Explore the castle, the surrounding 120,000 acre Queensberry Estate, Country Park and grand Victorian garden for a great day out.

An exciting new bird watching opportunity to view spectacular red kites in lovely scenery is on our doorstop at the beautiful Loch Ken, where the Galloway Red Kite Trail  is  now attracting the attention of walkers, cyclists, wildlife lovers and birdwatchers in Dumfries and Galloway and from much further afield.  The kites are plentiful and can be seen feeding every day.

Other attractions include the Castle Douglas Food Town  and Kirkcudbright Artists' Town

Our Terms

Our suite can accommodate a couple, or a couple with a third and/or fourth person in a separate room.  We charge £60 per night for the double room.  The third/fourth person's change in the separate room is by arrangement, depending on age. 

We are open all the year round.

We welcome children over the age of 12. 

We have a no smoking policy on the Farm and we are sorry, but no pets. 

Our Location

Low Arvie is situated some 10 miles from Castle Douglas, in open countryside a mile north of the village of Corsock, on the A 712 between Crocketford and New Galloway. 

We are just an hour's drive from Stranraer, where there is a terminal for ferries to and from Ireland and two hours from Glasgow International Airport, from where transfers can be arranged via Glasgow Airport Millennium Taxis.

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Our Book

Coming to Low Arvie was a fulfilment of a dream. A dream of a farm, a small piece of land we could call our own, where we could live out the second half of our lives in harmony with nature and at peace with the world, perhaps to grow corn or rear cows, whatever the land we bought dictated. This was our dream. We were lucky, We found it and we live it.

How we came to do this and the journey it involved is chronicled in Linda's newly published book "The Ladies of Low Arvie".

If you come to stay, you can purchase a copy at a price of £10.  Alternatively please send a cheque, payable to Linda Watson, for £12.50 (to cover postage and packing) to the address above - please ensure you include your return address.