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Dunscore
Dunscore ( / 'DUN-skur', less commonly / 'DUN-score') is a small village which lies northwest of Dumfries on the B729, in Dumfriesshire, in the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. The village consists of about 150 people and has a church, a community run pub, and a hosted post office three times a week. The village hosts a gala event every August. It is the birthplace of the Church of Scotland missionary Jane Haining, one of only ten Holocaust victims from Scotland. The Dunscore railway station opened in 1905, and closed to passengers in 1943 and to goods in 1949. The station was on the Cairn Valley Railway which ran to Moniaive from Dumfries. Craigenputtock Estate is within the Civil Parish of Dunscore. Etymology The name Dunscore is of Cumbric origin, formed of the elements ''dīn'' 'fort' and ''*ïsgor'' 'fortification, rampart'. William J. Watson proposes the meaning "fort of the bulwark or rampart". The Church There is a parish church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunscore Old Kirk
Dunscore Old Kirk (NGR NX 92661 83241) was a pre-reformation kirk (church) situated on rising ground off a minor road to Merkland, Parish of Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; about 3 km from Auldgirth. The church was known locally as the Kirk of Dunscore; it lies close to Fardingwell Farm and was between Isle Tower and Ellisland of Robert Burns, in the eastern part of the Civil Parish of Dunscore. No identifiable remains of the church can now be seen. The churchyard, consecrated ground, continues to be used for the inhabitants of the local farms, Isle Tower, Friars Carse, etc. History About AD1170 the original place of worship was established by a Norman lord. The land was gifted to the Abbey of Holywood by the Cistercian monks of Melrose. The monks played an important part in developing the area by improving the drainage, growing new crops and by promoting animal husbandry at such places the Friars' Carse grange and elsewhere. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunscore Old Kirk - General View
Dunscore ( / 'DUN-skur', less commonly / 'DUN-score') is a small village which lies northwest of Dumfries on the B729, in Dumfriesshire, in the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. The village consists of about 150 people and has a church, a community run pub, and a hosted post office three times a week. The village hosts a gala event every August. It is the birthplace of the Church of Scotland missionary Jane Haining, one of only ten Holocaust victims from Scotland. The Dunscore railway station opened in 1905, and closed to passengers in 1943 and to goods in 1949. The station was on the Cairn Valley Railway which ran to Moniaive from Dumfries. Craigenputtock Estate is within the Civil Parish of Dunscore. Etymology The name Dunscore is of Cumbric origin, formed of the elements ''dīn'' 'fort' and ''*ïsgor'' 'fortification, rampart'. William J. Watson proposes the meaning "fort of the bulwark or rampart". The Church There is a parish church ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Haining
Jane Mathison Haining (6 June 1897 – 17 July 1944) was a Scottish missionary for the Church of Scotland in Budapest, Hungary, who was recognized in 1997 by Yad Vashem in Israel as Righteous Among the Nations for having risked her life to help Jews during the Holocaust. Haining worked in Budapest from June 1932 as matron of a boarding house for Jewish and Christian girls in a school run by the Scottish Mission to the Jews. In or around 1940, after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the Church of Scotland advised Haining to return to Britain, but she decided to stay in Hungary. When Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, the SS began arranging the deportation of the country's Jews to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the German extermination camp in occupied Poland. Arrested by the Gestapo in April 1944 on a variety of charges, apparently after a dispute with the school's cook, Haining was herself deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May. She died there two months later, probably as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunscore Railway Station
Dunscore (NX858840) was one of the four principal stations on the Cairn Valley Light Railway (CVR) branch, from Dumfries. It served the rural area of Dunscore in Dumfries and Galloway. The line was closed to passengers during the war in WW2.Awdry, page 64 History The CVR was nominally independent, but was in reality controlled by the Glasgow and South Western Railway.Sanders, page 50 The line was closed to passengers on 3 May 1943, during WW2 and to freight on 4 July 1949, and the track lifted in 1953. The station cost £212 to build in red brick with cream painted poster boards and chocolate-coloured framing. The extension over the front was covered with red tiles, as was the main roof. A booking office and waiting room was provided. Water columns and tanks were fitted at each end of the station platform. A station master's house was provided A three-arched red brick-faced viaduct crossed the River Cairn just below the station. Electrically controlled home and starter sig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Robert Grierson
Sir Robert Grierson, 1st Baronet of Lag (1655 – 31 December 1733) was a Scottish baronet from Dunfries-shire. He is best remembered as a notorious persecutor of the Covenanters, particularly among the people of Galloway, and is still referred to by nickname, "Cruel Lag". The character of Sir Robert Redgauntlet of "Wandering Willie's Tale" in Sir Walter Scott's ''Redgauntlet'' is based on Grierson. Personal life Robert Grierson was born in 1655 at the farm of Barquhar, in Dumfries, Scotland. His parents were Laird William Grierson (1626-1666) of Barquhar, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, the 1st Tutor of Lag, and his wife, Margaret Douglas (b. 1633). His maternal grandfather was Sir James Douglas, of Mouswald, Dumfriesshire. The Griersons claimed descent from Malcolm MacGregor of Glenorchy. MacGregor was supposedly a key ally of Robert the Bruce, resulting in claims that Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney granted him the lands of Lag in Dumfriesshire in 1408.HendersonGrierson, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairn Valley Railway
The Cairn Valley Light Railway was a rural railway line built to connect Moniaive and other communities in the Cairn Valley with the main railway network at Dumfries. It opened in 1905 but usage was disappointing, and declined further when bus companies started competing. It was closed to passengers in 1943, and completely closed in 1949. History Early proposals The Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) fully opened its main line between Glasgow and Carlisle via Dumfries in 1850, revolutionising transport facilities at the places served. Communities that were by-passed began to feel disadvantages of not having a railway connection. As early as 1865 a branch railway to Moniaive was proposed: the G&SWR paid two-thirds of the cost of a survey. In 1867 a determined effort was made to start construction. The cost of a line connecting Moniaive to the G&SWR was estimated at £66,000, but local promoters only got commitment to £20,150 in subscriptions. They approached the G&SWR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumfriesshire
Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (''Siorrachd Dhùn Phris'' in Gaelic) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the historic county. In terms of historic counties it borders Kirkcudbrightshire to the west, Ayrshire to the north-west, Lanarkshire, Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire to the north, and Roxburghshire to the east. To the south is the coast of the Solway Firth, and the English county of Cumberland. Dumfriesshire has three traditional subdivisions, based on the three main valleys in the county: Annandale, Eskdale and Nithsdale. These had been independent provinces in medieval times but were gradually superseded as administrative areas by the area controlled by the sheriff of Dumfries, or Dumfriesshire. A Dumfriesshire County Council existed from 1890 until 1975. Since 1975, the area of the historic county has formed part of the Dumfries and Galloway council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friars Carse
Friars' Carse is a mansion house and estate situated (NX 926 850) southeast of Auldgirth on the main road (A76) to Dumfries, Parish of Dunscore, Scotland. The property is located on the west bank of the River Nith and is known for its strong associations with Robert Burns who lived for a while at the nearby Ellisland farm. The mansion house is unlisted, however the stables and hermitage are Category B listed buildings. The house and policies The present mansion house hotel is of a baronial style in dressed red sandstone, constructed around an earlier house in 1873 by the architects Barbour and Bowie and extended by the same architects 1905 – 09. The principal (south-east) range has a complex wide faced frontage and incorporates a peculiar round tower with a rectangular second stage corbelled out above. An armorial panel dated 1598 was built into the entrance tower range in 1909. The house has a fine panelled entrance hall and snooker room, together with an elegant staircase ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craigenputtock
Craigenputtock (usually spelled by the Carlyles as Craigenputtoch) is an estate in Scotland where Thomas Carlyle lived from 1828 to 1834. He wrote several of his early works there, including ''Sartor Resartus''. The estate's name incorporates the Scots words '' craig'', meaning hill, referring in this case to a whinstone hill, and ''puttock'', or small hawk. Craigenputtock occupies of farmland in the civil parish of Dunscore in Dumfriesshire, within the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway. The principal residence on the grounds is a two-storey, four bedroomed Georgian Country House ( category B listed). The estate also comprises two cottages, a farmstead, of moorland hill rising to above sea level, and of inbye ground of which is arable, ploughable land and is woodland. It was the property for generations (circa 1500) of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) (descended on the paternal side fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellisland Farm
Ellisland Farm lies about 6.5 mi/10.4 km northwest of Dumfries near the village of Auldgirth, located in the Parish of Dunscore, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The complex is a museum in the farm Robert Burns built, lived in and farmed from 1788 until 1791.Wilson, Page 9 History William Roy's map, circa 1747–55, does not show any form of settlement at Ellisland. However William Crawford's 1804 map of Dumfries-shire marks an 'Elliesland' as expected, the farm having been built a few years before. The name is said to be derived from ''"Isle's Land"'', the name of a neighbouring estate.Hendry, Page 42 The river may have been less of a barrier to transport than today and a ford is known to have existed nearby. Patrick Miller of Dalswinton wrote of the area in September 1810, saying; ''"When I purchased this estate about twenty-five years ago, I had not seen it. It was in the most miserable state of exhaustion, and all the tenants in poverty. .... When I went to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dumfries And Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway ( sco, Dumfries an Gallowa; gd, Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of 32 unitary council areas of Scotland and is located in the western Southern Uplands. It covers the counties of Scotland, historic counties of Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire, the latter two of which are collectively known as Galloway. The administrative centre and largest settlement is the town of Dumfries. The second largest town is Stranraer, on the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel coast, some to the west of Dumfries. Following the 1975 reorganisation of local government in Scotland, the three counties were joined to form a single regions and districts of Scotland, region of Dumfries and Galloway, with four districts within it. The districts were abolished in 1996, since when Dumfries and Galloway has been a unitary local authority. For lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy purposes, the area is divided into three lieutenancy a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Grierson
Clan Grierson is a Scottish Lowlands, Lowlands Scottish Clan.Way, George and Squire, Romily. ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs). Published in 1994. Pages 152 – 153. History Origins of the Family The personal name Gregor comes from the Greek language, Greek for ''vigilant'', through its Latin translation of ''gregorious''. The name was popular amongst clergy in the Middle Ages. It is from this forename that the surname of Grierson has been claimed to be derived. It has been conjectured that the Grierson family come from the same stock as the Clan Gregor however there is no evidence to support such a claim. DNA has proved conclusively that the Griersons do not descend from the MacGregors, but despite this Grierson is recognized as a sept of Clan Gregor by the . The surname ''Grierson (name), Grierson'' is a modern spelling of the medieval (circa 1408) surname Grerson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
