Garlieston

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Garlieston
Scottish Gaelic Baile Gheàrr Lios
Street train in Garlieston
Street train in Garlieston
Coordinates 54 ° 47 ′  N , 4 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 47 ′  N , 4 ° 22 ′  W
Garlieston (Scotland)
Garlieston
Garlieston
administration
Post town NEWTON STEWART
ZIP code section DG8
prefix 01988
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Galloway and West Dumfries

Garlieston , historically also Garliestown , Gaelic Baile Gheàrr Lios , is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway or the traditional county of Wigtownshire . It is located about eight kilometers southeast of Wigtown on Wigtown Bay on the east coast of the Machars peninsula .

history

In the 12th century, the Cruggleton Church was built near today's town, a church building. After his previous seat was destroyed in a fire, Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway had the mansion Galloway House built near the present town in the early 1740s . There was a town called Carswell on his estate at the time . In order to increase his privacy, Stewart arranged the relocation of the village. Today's Garlieston was built as a planned settlement to accommodate the residents of Carswell. The village developed as a seaport and with the production of sails and ropes as well as boat building, corresponding crafts settled. Furthermore, the fishing was pursued.

Between 1941 and 1944, during the Second World War , the Mulberry ports were tried out in the port of Garlieston and later made for transport to Normandy .

In the course of the 19th century, Garlieston had over 600 inhabitants, but by 1971 the number had fallen to 385.

traffic

Garlieston is connected to the trunk road network via a side road of the A746 . In the past, the port was an important economic factor. There were regular ship connections to Glasgow , Liverpool and the Isle of Man , among others . With the Wigtownshire Railway ran from 1876 a railway line to the port of Garlieston. The line was closed in 1964.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Garliestown in: FH Groome (ed.): Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh, 1882-1885.
  2. ^ List of Gaelic expressions
  3. ↑ a b c d Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  4. ↑ Entry on Cruggleton Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  5. ↑ Garden and Designed Landscape - entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland

Web links

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