Penpont
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| Coordinates | 55 ° 14 ′ N , 3 ° 49 ′ W | ||
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| Post town | THORNHILL | ||
| ZIP code section | DG3 | ||
| prefix | 01848 | ||
| Part of the country | Scotland | ||
| Council area | Dumfries and Galloway | ||
| British Parliament | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale | ||
| Scottish Parliament | Dumfriesshire | ||
Penpont is a town in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . It is located about five kilometers west of Thornhill and 24 kilometers northwest of Dumfries on the left bank of Scaur Water . Historically, Penpont was part of the traditional county of Dumfriesshire and the district of Nithsdale .
history
The place name is derived from the Cumbrian pen-y-pont and roughly means "beginning of the bridge". Kumbrian was common in southern Scotland around the turn of the first millennium. Large parts of the surrounding Parish of the same name belonged to the possessions of the Dukes of Buccleuch in the 19th century . The designed by the Scottish architect David Bryce built mansion Capenoch House is located a few hundred meters southwest of Penpont. In 1858 the explorer Joseph Thomson was born in Penpont .
traffic
The A702 ( Edinburgh - St John's Town of Dalry ) forms the main road to Penpont and connects the village to the trunk road network. To the east, at Thornhill, it crosses the A76 . Penpont never had its own train station. In 1846, however, a station was opened in Thornhill along the main line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway . Although the line itself is still used, the station was closed in the 1960s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
- ^ A b Penpont in: FH Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical , Grange Publishing, Edinburgh, 1885.
- ^ Information about Thornhill train station
