Cummertrees
Cummertrees | ||
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Main street from Cummertrees | ||
Coordinates | 54 ° 59 ′ N , 3 ° 21 ′ W | |
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Post town | ANNAN | |
ZIP code section | DG12 | |
prefix | 01461 | |
Part of the country | Scotland | |
Council area | Dumfries and Galloway | |
British Parliament | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | |
Scottish Parliament | Dumfriesshire | |
Cummertrees is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway or in the Annandale district of the traditional county of Dumfriesshire . It is located about five kilometers west of Annan and 17 kilometers southeast of Dumfries on the left bank of the Pow Burn . The north coast of the Solway Firth runs around one kilometer south .
history
In the area around Cummertrees in the contested Scottish-English border area, numerous fortifications can be found. In the early 17th century, the lands came under the ownership of the Marquesses of Queensberry . With the mansion Kinmount House they built a significant location. Another mansion in the immediate area is Murraythwaite House , which John Murray had built around 1766.
A church was built in Cummertrees as early as the 12th century. Today's Cummertrees Parish Church was built on the same site in 1777. In the 1880s there was a school for 130 students in Cummertrees. Today a primary school is located there.
In the 1961 census survey, 142 inhabitants were counted in Cummertrees.
traffic
The B724 coming from Annan connects Cummertrees to the road network. The A75 ( Stranraer - Gretna Green ) runs around two kilometers to the north, a national trunk road. Cummertrees received its own train station in 1848 along the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, which later became the Glasgow and South Western Railway . While the line continues to operate, the station was closed in 1955.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Entry on Cummertrees Parish Church in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
- ↑ Cummertrees in: FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
- ↑ Information from the Dumfries and Galloway Council
- ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Information about the Cummertrees train station