Hill walk
routes to climb in SW Scotland - also coastal paths and National Scenic
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local knowledge
St
Ninian's Cave to Isle of Whithorn
Map
of a coastal walk from St Ninian's Cave to Isle of Whithorn - in the steps
of St Ninian the first bishop to bring Christianity to Scotland around
397 AD
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This walk visits both the cave which Ninian is said to have used as a retreat and also St Ninian's Chapel at Isle of Whithorn - the existing building there is of much later date but an early building was probably on this site. We followed the coast from the cave to the chapel but came back by a tarred road to the campsite at Burrow Head and rejoined the coastal path back to Physgill. It took us 6 hours including time for lunch at Isle of Whithorn.
