Leswalt
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 56 ′ N , 5 ° 6 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | STRANRAER | ||
| ZIP code section | DG9 | ||
| prefix | 01776 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Dumfries and Galloway | ||
| British Parliament | Dumfries and Galloway | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Galloway and Upper Nithsdale | ||
Leswalt is a town in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . It is located around five kilometers northwest of Stranraer on the Rhins of Galloway peninsula in the traditional county of Wigtownshire . About 1.5 kilometers to the east, Loch Ryan Bay cuts into the land mass to Stranraer.
history
The history of Leswalt is linked to the Agnew clan . With Old Lochnaw Castle , the remains of a fortification of the clan from the 1360s can be found not far from the village. In 1426 a new fortress was built, which in 1663 was replaced by a tower house for Andrew Agnew, 2nd Baronet . A 16th century tower house formed the nucleus of today's mansion Lochnaw Castle , the ancestral seat of the Agnew Baronets and the Agnew clan. With the ruins of the 16th century Galdenoch Castle, there is another fortification of the Agnew clan west of Leswalt.
In the 1971 census survey, 237 people were counted in Leswalt.
traffic
Leswalt can be reached via a side road of the A718 , which connects the northern part of the Rhins of Galloway to the road network. The street ends in the center of Stranraer. There is a connection to the national highways A75 ( Stranraer - Gretna Green ) and A77 , which, most recently as the M77 , leads to the center of Glasgow .
Sons and daughters of the village
- Sir Alex Fergusson (1949–2018), politician and member of the Conservative Party
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
