Bladnoch

15°COvercast

• Today: 15° / 12° · 21% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 15° · Light rain shower

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:45Sunset 19:42

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

54US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · South Ayrshire Ayr High St, United Kingdom

192 reported road collisions (2024)

77 killed or seriously injured · 264 casualties · 13.2 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

27 food businesses within 2 miles

• 18 passed
• 1 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 2 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap

£166,891 average▲ 2.7% YoY

Across Dumfries and Galloway · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

3 charging locations within ~8 km

• Fastest nearby: 22 kW
• Nearest: Fast Charger (1.6 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres1
• Sports pitches6
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

145,490 residents in Dumfries and Galloway

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 57%
• 65+: 29%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

5% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 9% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

John Cooper

Conservative

Dumfries and Galloway

Source: UK Parliament

SNP / Labour / Independent / Liberal Democrat coalition

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• GPs & clinics1
• Pharmacies1
• Supermarkets1
• Parks & greens3
• Restaurants & cafés4

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

7,605 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£723 median full-time weekly pay

2.8% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£23,835 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

96% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 73% · Solar 14% · Wind 8% · Imports 4%

1 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for South Scotland · National Grid ESO

• Life satisfaction7.7
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.6
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.7

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Dumfries and Galloway:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s382 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership276 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office244 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills170 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership155 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  Bladnoch, Wigtownshire · 0.2 km

  Bladnoch is a small village on the River Bladnoch in Wigtownshire, Scotland, located just outside the county town of Wigtown.

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  Bladnoch distillery · 0.2 km

  Bladnoch distillery is a Lowland single malt Scotch whisky distillery located at Bladnoch, near Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway in south west Scotland.

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  Wigtown & Bladnoch F.C. · 0.9 km

  Wigtown & Bladnoch Football Club are a football club from the town of Wigtown in the Dumfries and Galloway area of Scotland, who play in the South of Scotland Football League, in the sixth tier of Scottish football.

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  RAF Wigtown · 1.2 km

  Royal Air Force Wigtown or more simply RAF Wigtown, is a former Royal Air Force station within the Dumfries and Galloway region of southwest Scotland. It was built on the Machars peninsula near the village of Wigtown…

• Wigtown railway station · 1.3 km

  Wigtown was a railway station on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway. It served a rural area in Wigtownshire. The station closed for…

• Blackfriars, Wigtown · 1.5 km

  The Church of the Friars Preachers of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Wigtown, commonly called Blackfriars, was a mendicant friary of the Dominican Order founded in the 13th century at Wigtown, Gallow…

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