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Country Sports at Drumlanrig

Drumlanrig offers an excellent selection of sporting activities here on the Queensberry Estate. Whether your passion is shooting, fishing or working with gundogs, there is some world-acclaimed sport available suitable for all interests.

Field Sports

The natural beauty of the Queensberry Estate at Drumlanrig, offers a unique setting for various types of field sport. The largest of the Buccleuch Estates, with the magnificent Drumlanrig Castle as its centrepiece, Queensberry's sport is second to none attracting some of the best guns in the UK and beyond, whether for driven grouse, pheasant, partridge, or rough shooting, falconry and duck flighting.

Fishing

Here at Drumlanrig, we boast some of the most thrilling fishing opportunities in Scotland.

The powerful and majestic River Nith, the largest river in South West Scotland, provides excellent Salmon and Sea Trout fishing while our four Trout lochs, with their beautiful woodland or policy locations and stocked with Rainbow and wild Brown Trout, are second to none. Coarse fishing is offered on two ponds within the wider Estate.

Find out more about our Fishing opportunties here.

The Buccleuch Kennel

In the 1830s the 5th Duke of Buccleuch was one of the first people in Britain to import Labrador Retrievers from Newfoundland in Canada to work as gun dogs on his Scottish estates.

The Buccleuch Kennel was established in the 1880s and the world famous Buccleuch Labrador strain was born.

These exceptional dogs were kept as working dogs on the Buccleuch estates and for breeding and it was not until the appointment in 2004 of a Kennel Manager, David Lisett, and the setting up of state-of-the-art bespoke kennels that a new breeding initiative was set up to safe-guard the future of this historic bloodline.

In addition, champion Springers and Cockers are now bred under the Buccleuch name and for the first time the Buccleuch Labradors, along with the Cockers and Springers, are competing succesfully in field trials up and down the country.

You can read more on the magnificent Buccleuch Gundogs here.