National Trust places in Dumfries & Galloway

Home, studio and Japanese-inspired garden of the Glasgow Boy E A Hornel in Kirkcudbright, full of his paintings and Burns collection.

A 60-metre waterfall plunging from Loch Skeen into Moffat Water, with a short viewpoint path and a steep climb to the loch and the hills.

Solway coast of rocky bays and wildflower meadows between Rockcliffe and Kippford, with a Dark Age hill fort and a tidal walk to Rough Island.

The Arched House in Ecclefechan where the Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle was born in 1795, with his cradle, desk and 80th-birthday tribute.

The Trust's teaching garden of 26 hectares of garden rooms and 200 daffodil varieties around an 1871 mansion, with a wetland nature reserve and bat reserve.