Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kirtle-Bridge

Kirtle-Bridge, a village in the SE corner of Middlebie parish, Dumfriesshire, on the right bank of Kirtle' Water. It has a station on the Caledonian railway at the junction of the Solway railway, 5½ miles NNE of Annan and 3¼ ESE of Ecclefechan, under which there is a post and railway telegraph office. Kirtle Established chapel, in Annan parish, near the village, was built at a cost of £500.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

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Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Middlebie ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty
Place: Kirtlebridge

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