Dornock

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Dornock
Scottish Gaelic Dòrnach
Entrance to Dornock
Entrance to Dornock
Coordinates 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 59 ′  N , 3 ° 12 ′  W
Dornock (Scotland)
Dornock
Dornock
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

Dornock , Gaelic Dòrnach , 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 three kilometers east of Annan near the opening of the estuary delta of the Esk to the Solway Firth .

history

In the 14th and 15th centuries, two battles of the Anglo-Scottish Wars took place at Dornock, of which both parties could decide one for themselves. With the Tower Houses Robgill Tower and Stapleton Tower, there were two fortifications in the area. In 1793, the Dornock Parish Church was built in Dornock. In the 1880s, there were two separate schools in Dornock. Both have now been closed. On the south edge is the Dornock House farmhouse .

traffic

The B721 forms the main street of Dornock. The A75 ( Stranraer - Gretna Green ) passes one kilometer to the north and connects the village to the trunk road network. Dornock received its own station in 1848 along the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, which later became the Glasgow and South Western Railway . The station was named after the neighboring village of Eastriggs in 1923 and closed in 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Battle of Dornock 1333
  4. ^ A b Dornock in: FH Groome (Ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  5. ↑ Entry on Robgill Tower  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  6. ↑ Entry on Stapleton Tower  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  7. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  8. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  9. ↑ Information about the Dornock train station

Web links

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