Boreland is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, which is located in Eskdale about north of Lockerbie on the B723 road to

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. The village has a small primary school. Boreland is the smallest village to be twinned with

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, the capital of the province of

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. There is another small village called Boreland in Perthshire, one near Dysart in Fife and numerous hamlets and farms throughout Scotland, largely in the

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and the south, with a particular prevalence in Dumfries and Galloway. The term is from the Scots "bordland" meaning "table-land" or "land which directly supplies the

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Villages in Dumfries and Galloway {{DumfriesGalloway-geo-stub