Portpatrick
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Portpatrick Scottish Gaelic Port Phàdraig |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 51 ′ N , 5 ° 7 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 534 2011 census | ||
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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 West Dumfries | ||
Portpatrick ( Gaelic : Port Phàdraig ) is a harbor village in the far west of the Council Area of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland and has 534 inhabitants (as of 2011).
Portpatrick is on the west coast of the Rhins of Galloway , a hammer-shaped peninsula to the west of Dumfries and Galloway. Since it was founded around 500 years ago, the village has been used primarily as a starting point for a fast ferry connection to Ireland and was connected to Dumfries by an army road . In the 1830s, the ferry connections to Glasgow , Liverpool and the Isle of Man were expanded, and there was also a connection to the rail network. But because of the exposed and unprotected location on the west coast of Scotland, it became more and more difficult for the larger ships that were then used to enter the port from the 1860s onwards. Therefore the shipping traffic shifted noticeably to Stranraer . In the 1875 the rail connection to Dumfries was canceled and in the 1950s the rail connection to Stranraer was cut. Today Portpatrick is economically insignificant, but has established itself as a tourist destination.
Portpatrick has a Navtex station.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the Scottish Parliament
- ↑ 2011 census
- ↑ Portpatrick on undiscoveredscotland.co.uk , accessed 13 November 2010