Dalbeattie (Scots: Dawbeattie, from Gaelic Dail Bheithe meaning "valley of birch") is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Dalbeattie is in a wooded valley on the Urr Water 6 km (4 mi) east of Castle Douglas and 19 km (12 mi) south west of Dumfries. The town is famed for its granite industry and for being the home town of William McMaster Murdoch First Officer of the RMS Titanic.
Population: 4,205
Latitude: 54° 55' 58.01" N
Longitude: -3° 49' 21.76" W
Dumfries and Galloway College is a further education college in Dumfries and Galloway, with campuses in Dumfries and Stranraer. It offers a wide range of courses, including business, computing, construction, creative industries, education, engineeri…
Cummertrees is a coastal village and civil parish of Annandale in Dumfries and Galloway.
The Battle of Dornock was fought on 25 March 1333 during the Second War of Scottish Independence.
Balmaclellan (Scottish Gaelic: Baile MhicIllFhaolain, meaning town of the MacLellans) is a small hillside village of stone houses with slate roofs in a fold of the Galloway hills in south-west Scotland. To the west, across the Ken River, the larger …
Arbigland Estate is an estate in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland.
Annan railway station serves the town of Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
The A701 is a major road in Scotland that runs from Dumfries to Edinburgh.
Wigton railway station serves the town of Wigton in Cumbria, England.
Tongland is a small village about 2 miles north of Kirkcudbright, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Stewartry is a committee area in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Sorbie Tower is a fortified tower house 1 mile east of the village of Sorbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
This article is about the Cumbrian hamlet.
Parton is a village situated on the banks of the River Dee in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Middlebie is a hamlet and parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland.
Maxwelltown (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann Drochaid) was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire in south west Scotland. In 1929 Maxwelltown was merged with Dumfries. Map ref.
Kirkpatrick-Fleming is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is located around 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) north-west of Gretna, and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Annan, between the Kirtle Water and the A74(M) motorway. From the vi…
Kilquhanity School was one of several free schools to have been established in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century.
Glenlair House, near the village of Corsock in the Scottish Council area of Dumfries and Galloway, was the home of the physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879). The original structure was designed for Maxwell's father by Walter Newall; Maxwell hims…