Palnure ( Scottish Gaelic: ''Poll an Iùbhair'') is a small village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in

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 ...

, Scotland, on the Palnure Burn, just outside Newton Stewart. Cairnsmore_House,_Palnure,_Creetown,_Kirkcudbrightshire,_Scotland

Cairnsmore was the birthplace of

Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford Hastings William Sackville Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (21 December 1888 – 9 October 1953) was a British peer. He was born at Cairnsmore House, Minnigaff, Kirkcudbrightshire, the son of Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, and his wife ...

son of

Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, (19 February 1858 – 27 August 1940) was an English politician and peer. He was the son of Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Sackville-West, daughter of George Sack ...

and his wife Mary Du Caurroy Tribe, DBE, RRC, FLS, The Flying Duchess '''. He was born in a derelict shepherd's cottage on the moors on 21 December 1888, his mother Lady Herbrand Russell having gone into labour while walking on the moors with her husband. He was noted for both his career as a naturalist and for his involvement in far-right politics. CD_Barnard_and_Mary_Russell_1929

Until 1951 Palnure had a railway station on the

Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway The Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint RailwaysThe final word is in the plural. was a network of railway lines serving sparsely populated areas of south-west Scotland. The title appeared in 1885 when the previously independent Portpatrick Rai ...

that was closed to all traffic in 1965.

References

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