Tongland

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Tongland
Tongland hydroelectric power station
Tongland hydroelectric power station
Coordinates 54 ° 52 ′  N , 4 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′  N , 4 ° 2 ′  W
Tongland (Scotland)
Tongland
Tongland
administration
Post town KIRKCUDBRIGHT
ZIP code section DG6
prefix 01557
Part of the country Scotland
Council area Dumfries and Galloway
British Parliament Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament Galloway and West Dumfries

Tongland is a town in the Scottish Council Area Dumfries and Galloway . It is located about three kilometers northeast of Kirkcudbright on the right bank of the Dee .

history

Presumably in the 12th century a Premonstratensian monastery was established in Tongland with the Tongland Abbey . According to tradition, the last abbot threw himself before the eyes of King James IV in an attempt to fly from the battlements of Stirling Castles . After the monastery was given up, the old parish church of Tongland was built on the site in the 17th century . Today's neo-Gothic Tongland Parish Church was built in 1813.

Is the mausoleum in the cemetery James Beaumont Neilson , the inventor of the first blast stoves for blast furnaces . During the First World War , aircraft engines were manufactured for military purposes in a factory in Tongland. The automobile manufacturer Galloway Motors moved into the production halls in the 1920s . In 1936, the Tongland hydroelectric power station completed a series of hydroelectric power stations along the Dee. To generate electricity, this was dammed northeast of the village to the Tongland Loch .

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With the Old Tongland Bridge , a crossing of the Dee was built around 1737 at the height of today's hydroelectric power station. The Tongland Bridge used today was completed downstream in 1808. It leads the A711 ( Ringford - Dumfries ) over the Dee. The national road runs directly through Tongland. It connects the village in the immediate vicinity to the A75 , the A755 and the A762 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  2. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  3. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  4. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  5. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

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