Dumfries and Galloway

This article describes the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway. For the constituency of the same name, see Dumfries and Galloway (constituency) .

Dumfries and Galloway
Administrative headquarters	Dumfries
surface	6,426 km² (3.)
Population (2012)	150,830 (12.)
ISO 3166-2	GB-DGY
ONS code	00QH
Website	www.dumgal.gov.uk

Dumfries and Galloway [ dʌmˌfɹiːsənˈgæləweɪ ] ( Scottish Gaelic Dùn Phris agus an Gall-Ghaidhealaibh ) is one of 32 Council Areas in Scotland . In the north it borders on South Ayrshire , East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire , in the east on Scottish Borders and in the south on the English county of Cumbria . It is north of the Solway Firth and east of the Irish Sea .

description

Dumfries and Galloway includes three traditional counties ; in the east Dumfriesshire , in the center Kirkcudbrightshire and in the west Wigtownshire . The latter two are also known collectively as Galloway.

After Galloway were Galloway cattle named.

From 1975 to 1996 Dumfries and Galloway formed a Scottish region .

history

The Dumfries and Galloway region was formed in 1975 from the counties of Dumfriesshire , Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire . The region was divided into four districts :

• Annandale and Eskdale
• Nithsdale
• Stewartry
• Wigtown

In 1996 the regions and districts in Scotland were abolished and replaced by 32 council areas . The four districts of the Dumfries and Galloway region were dissolved and the Dumfries and Galloway Council Area was formed from across the region.

places

Ae Annan Beattock Bladnoch Caerlaverock Cairnryan Carsphairn Castle Douglas Castle Kennedy Creetown Dalbeattie Dalton Rigid Drummore

Dumfries Ecclefechan Eskdalemuir Gatehouse of Fleet Glenluce Gretna Green Kirkcolm Kirkcudbright Langholm Perforations Lockerbie Millhousebridge Moffat Moniaive

Mull of Galloway New Abbey New Galloway New Luce Newton Stewart Portpatrick Ruthwell St John's Town of Dalry Sanquhar Stranraer Thornhill Wanlockhead Whithorn Wigtown

Dumfries and Galloway

Attractions

• Barsalloch Fort
• Caerlaverock Castle
• Cairnderry , Clyde tomb
• Cairnholy , Clyde tomb
• Corsewall Lighthouse
• Drumtroddan , row of stones
• Galloway Forest Park
• Glenluce Abbey
• Kilmorie Stone , Cross Slab
• Southern Upland Way
• Sweetheart Abbey
• see also: List of Category A structures in Dumfries and Galloway

Stone circles

• Girdle Stanes
• Glenquicken
• Loupin Stanes
• Torhousekie
• Twelve Apostles (Newbridge)

Personalities

• The Africa explorer Joseph Thomson (1858–1895) came from Penpont .
• The actress Ashley Jensen was born in Annan in 1969.
• Former Formula 1 racing driver David Coulthard was born in Twynholm in 1971 .
• Actor Sam Heughan was born in New Galloway in 1980.

politics

The Dumfries and Galloway Council has 43 seats, which are distributed among the parties as follows (as of May 2017):

Political party	Seats
Scottish Conservatives	16
Scottish Labor	11
Scottish National Party	11
Independently	4th
Liberal Democrats	1

In the referendum on whether Great Britain should remain in the European Union , in which Scotland voted with a clear majority of 62% to remain, almost 47% in Dumfries and Galloway voted for leaving the EU.

Web links

Commons : Dumfries and Galloway  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mid-2012 Population ( Memento from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB)
2. ↑ May-2017 Results of the 2017 local elections. Dumgal.gov.uk, accessed on July 8, 2017 (English). 
3. ^ Giancarlo Rinaldi: Brexit: Voters 'doomed' or delighted in Dumfries. BBC News, June 24, 2016, accessed December 14, 2019 .