Dumfries Dumfries and Galloway - The First In ScotlandDumfries & Galloway Council |
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The River Nith is the seventh longest river in Scotland. It rises in East Ayrshire in the Carsphairn hills, and for the majority of its course flows through Dumfries and Galloway, before spilling into the Solway Firth at Dumfries. Pictures by: GallowayNightSky |
Dumfries is the headquarters of Dumfries and Galloway Council.
The name Dumfries and Galloway is given to one of Scotland's 32 council areas comprising the former districts of
Nithsdale, Annandale and Eskdale, the Stewartry of Kirkcudbrightshire, the Machars and Wigtownshire.
Dumfries also lends its name to the Lieutenancy Area of Dumfries, which is similar in boundaries to the former Dumfriesshire county.
The first bridge over the Nith, Devorgilla Bridge, named after Devorgilla, the wife of King John Balliol, founder of Balliol College, Oxford, was built here in 1432.
Rebuilt more than once and shortened from the east in the 19th century, this is still used by pedestrians and is one of Scotland's oldest standing bridges.
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There are many buildings in Dumfries made from sandstone of the local Locharbriggs quarry. The quarry is situated off the A701 on the north of Dumfries at Locharbriggs close to the nearby aggregates quarry. This dimension stone quarry is a large quarry. Quarry working at Lochabriggs dates from the 18th century, and the quarry has been worked continuously since 1890
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DID YOU KNOW ?: Dumfries gained its first newspaper in 1721.
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Dumfries
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Pictures taken by GallowayNightSky
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Burns statue and Greyfriars Church
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