Sorbie

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Sorbie
Parish Church of Sorbie
Parish Church of Sorbie
Coordinates 54 ° 48 ′  N , 4 ° 26 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 48 ′  N , 4 ° 26 ′  W
Sorbie (Scotland)
Sorbie
Sorbie
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

Sorbie is a small town in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . It is located around eight kilometers south of Wigtown and around eleven kilometers north of Whithorn in the Machars region .

history

In the 16th century the lands belonged to the Hannay clan . With the Tower House Sorbie Tower they built a defense structure near the present town towards the end of the century. Another tower house, Ravenstone Castle , southwest of Sorbie was built in the same century.

The mausoleum of the Earls of Galloway is located in the cemetery of the Sorbie Old Parish Church . It was John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway , who had today's Sorbie built as a planned settlement in the late 18th century. The village developed into a center for damask production . The factory, built around 1790, enjoyed a high reputation in Great Britain. In 1750 the poet Robert Cowper was born on a farm near Sorbie.

In 1861 there were still 1814 inhabitants in Sorbie, the number has since declined. In the 1971 census survey, 135 people were counted.

traffic

The A714 (Wigtown - Girvan ) forms the main road Sorbies and connects the village to the trunk road network. The B7052 from Garlieston joins the center . In 1875 Sorbie got its own station along the branch line Wigtownshire Railway . When the line was closed in the 1960s, the station was abandoned.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Entry on Sorbie Tower  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ a b Sorbie in: FH Groome: Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical. , Grange Publishing, Edinburgh, 1885.
  6. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  7. ↑ Information on Sorbie

Web links

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