Crossmichael

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Crossmichael
Scottish Gaelic Crois Mhìcheil
Main Street from Crossmichael
Main Street from Crossmichael
Coordinates 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 59 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 59 ′  W
Crossmichael (Scotland)
Crossmichael
Crossmichael
administration
Post town CASTLE DOUGLAS
ZIP code section DG7
prefix 01556
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Galloway and West Dumfries

Crossmichael , Gaelic Crois Mhìcheil , is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway or in the traditional county of Kirkcudbrightshire . It is located about five kilometers northwest of Castle Douglas and 13 kilometers southeast of New Galloway on the left bank of Loch Ken .

history

In the area around Crossmichael there are numerous documents of historical settlement. So find yourself with Crofts Mote , Auld Kirk of Lochroan and the Glengappock Mote remains of three forts in the area. The Glenlochar Fort , which may have been inhabited as early as the Bronze Age , should be emphasized . During the time of the Roman occupation of Britain , the Romans used the facility again and expanded it. With the Trowdale Mote , a former moth has also been preserved.

The earliest mention of a church dedicated to Saint Michael at this location comes from the year 1164. In front of this church there was a cross, from which the place name Crossmichael is derived. This formed the focus of an annual Michaelmas festival. Today's Crossmichael Parish Church was built in 1751. Like its predecessor, it is dedicated to St. Michael.

As early as the 1880s, there was a school in Crossmichael that could accommodate 200 students. Today a primary school is located there.

As part of the census survey in 1971, Crossmichael counted 317 inhabitants.

traffic

Crossmichael is located directly on the A713 . The trunk road connects Castle Douglas with Ayr . At Castle Douglas there is a connection to the nationally important A75 ( Stranraer - Gretna Green ). In the last few years of the 18th century, the Glenlochar Bridge was an important crossing of the Dee . There may have been a Roman bridge at this location before, which led the Roman road to Galloway . In 1861 Crossmichael got its own station along the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway . In the course of the Beeching ax , the route was abandoned in June 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ a b Scheduled Monument - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  7. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  8. ↑ Entry on Crossmichael Parish Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  9. ↑ Information from the parish
  10. ↑ Crossmichael in: FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  11. ↑ Information from the Council of Dumfries and Galloway ( Memento of the original of July 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dumgal.gov.uk
  12. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  13. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  14. ↑ Information about the Cummertrees train station

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