Dunscore

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Dunscore
Scottish Gaelic Dùn Sgoir
Main Street from Dunscore
Main Street from Dunscore
Coordinates 55 ° 8 ′  N , 3 ° 47 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 8 ′  N , 3 ° 47 ′  W
Dunscore (Scotland)
Dunscore
Dunscore
administration
Post town DUMFRIES
ZIP code section DG2
prefix 01387
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Dumfriesshire

Dunscore , Gaelic Dùn Sgoir , is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway or in the Nithsdale district of the traditional county of Dumfriesshire . It is located around 14 kilometers northwest of Dumfries near the left bank of the Cairn Water .

history

In the vicinity of Dunscore there were two defensive structures, the Tower Houses Lag Tower and Bogrie House . While the former probably dates back to the 14th century, Bogrie House seems to be of a later date. In the early 18th century, Lag Tower was the seat of Robert Grierson , who went down in history as a bitter opponent of the Covenanters .

The earliest mention of a church in this area dates back to 1257. The former parish church , now known as Dunscore Old Church , stood around six kilometers east of the village. After a new church was built in Dunscore in 1649, it was demolished in the early 1820s. In 1824 today's neo-Gothic Dunscore Parish Church was completed.

After two gender-separated schools were still located in Dunscore in the 1880s, Dunscore is now the location of a small primary school.

Dunscore is the birthplace of the missionary Jane Haining , who with her death in the Auschwitz concentration camp is one of the few Scottish concentration camp victims.

traffic

The B729 is the main road from Dunscore. It connects the town to the A702 ( Edinburgh - St John's Town of Dalry ) in the north-west and the A76 ( Kilmarnock - Dumfries ) in the south-east. With the Dalgonar Bridge , located southwest of the village , a crossing of the Cairn Water was created in the 1810s.

In 1905 a short branch line between Dumfries and Moniaive was set up with the Cairn Valley Light Railway . Dunscore received its own train station along this route. In 1943 passenger traffic was discontinued and the line was finally closed in 1949.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  2. ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Entry on Lag Tower  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Entry on Bogrie House  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ^ A b Dunscore in: FH Groome (Ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882–1885.
  6. ↑ Entry on Dunscore Parish Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  7. ↑ Information from the parish
  8. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  9. ↑ Information on Dunscore Elementary School
  10. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  11. ↑ Information on the Cairn Valley Light Railway

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