Cummertrees

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Cummertrees
Main street from Cummertrees
Main street from Cummertrees
Coordinates 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 21 ′  W
Cummertrees (Scotland)
Cummertrees
Cummertrees
administration
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

  1. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ Entry on Cummertrees Parish Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  7. ↑ Cummertrees in: FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  8. ↑ Information from the Dumfries and Galloway Council
  9. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  10. ↑ Information about the Cummertrees train station

Web links

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