Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Glenluce

Glenluce, vil., with ry. sta., Old Luce par., Wigtown, 8¾ m. SE. of Stranraer, and 14¾ SW. of Newton-Stewart, pop. 901; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; 1½ mile NW., on Luce Water, are the ruins of Glenluce Abbey (1190).


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "village, with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Old Luce ScoP       Glenluce Burgh       Wigtownshire ScoCnty
Place: Old Luce

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