Glen Trool

Glen Trool is in Galloway Forest Park about 30 miles to the north. It is the home to Loch Trool and some very impressive ancient oak woodlands. There is also a forest park visitor centre and a set of well-developed mountain bike tracks which form part of the Seven Stanes mountain biking centres. We followed a loop trail around Loch Trool starting from near Caldons House, the site of an old National Forest campsite. Caldons was also one of the houses that we considered buying when we were looking for a new home in the Galloway area. The trail winds through the woods along the south side of the loch giving some very scenic views across the still waters of the loch to Glen Trool Lodge. At the far end of the loch is the site of the battle of Glen Trool which took place in 1307 when Robert the Bruce’s men defeated a much larger group of English troops by rolling boulders down the hillside onto them.

From the end of Glen Trool, a track leads back along the north side of the loch, past the viewpoint of Bruce’s Stone and round the back of Glen Trool Lodge through the woods back to the Caldons car park. After all of the rain that we had in October the streams were all in full flow and made for a few good photographic opportunities.

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