St John's Town of Dalry

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St John's Town of Dalry
Buildings in St John's Town of Dalry
Buildings in St John's Town of Dalry
Coordinates 55 ° 6 ′  N , 4 ° 10 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 6 ′  N , 4 ° 10 ′  W
St John's Town of Dalry (Scotland)
St John's Town of Dalry
St John's Town of Dalry
administration
Post town CASTLE DOUGLAS
ZIP code section DG7
prefix 01644
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Galloway and West Dumfries

St John's Town of Dalry , formerly St John's Clachan of Dalry , often short Dalry , is a village in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . It is located around 35 km west of Dumfries and around 45 kilometers southeast of Ayr on the left bank of the Water of Ken .

history

The village is located on an old pilgrimage route of the Maltese (English: "Knights of St John"), from which the name St John's Town of Dalrys comes. There is a medieval moth on the banks of the Water of Ken . Today their remains are classified as a Scheduled Monument . Nearby is the neo-Gothic Dalry Parish Church , built in 1832 to replace a late medieval church building. Three kilometers to the north, on the banks of Earlstoun Loch , the Tower House Earlstoun Castle was built in the late 16th or early 17th century, a fortress inhabited by the lairds of the region.

It was the Earl of Galloway , which the medieval settlement in the late 18th century as the settlement plan goal for. While 639 people lived in St John's Town of Dalry in 1861, the number fell continuously over the course of the further century. In the course of the 1971 census survey, 432 inhabitants were counted.

traffic

The A702 coming from Edinburgh ends a trunk road in the village. It goes west of St John's Town of Dalry in the A713 ( Castle Douglas -Ayr). The A762 runs on the opposite side of the Water of Ken , while the A712 passes the town a few kilometers south. St John's Town of Dalry is on the Southern Upland Way , which runs from Portpatrick to Cockburnspath .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Entry on Dalry Motte  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  6. ↑ Entry on Earlstoun Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  7. ^ Information in the Gazetteer for Scotland

Web links

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