Whauphill is a small village located in the historical county of Wigtownshire in the

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, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Whauphill is a hub that supports the local industry, predominantly farming and agriculture. There are two tractor shops: Davidson Tractors, a family run Massey Ferguson Dealership, and a branch of Gordon's Agricultural Engineers. There is a branch of Tarff, a country shop, and feed merchant. There is also a post office, and a village hall. Whauphill used to have a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a prep ...

, village shop, hotel and pub, but the advent of the motor car, and Lord Beecham put paid to the Railway Station, and the village shop quickly followed suit. The hotel was closed when the publican died of cancer. Recent drink driving laws and increase in alcohol taxation have caused revenues in the pub to fall to the point where it is no longer viable and it has closed. Council cuts were going to cause the Village Hall to close but in an end to long-term decline in Whauphill, a community group has now taken control of the village hall from the council and are using it successfully to run local community events. *

Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew (1822–1848) was a British civil servant of the East India Company, whose murder during the Siege of Multan by the retainers of Dewan Mulraj led to the Second Sikh War and to the British annexation of the Punjab regio ...

(1822-1848). Vans Agnew was the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Vans Agnew of Barnbarroch House. A Madras officer of considerable reputation, and afterwards a director of the East India Company. *

Robert Vans Agnew Robert Vans Agnew (4 March 1817 – 26 September 1893) was a Scottish Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. At the 1868 United Kingdom general election, 1868 general election he unsuccessfully contested the Wigtown Burghs (UK P ...

(1817 –1893) was a Scottish Conservative Party politician Vans Agnew was elected as the

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(MP) for

Wigtownshire Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown (, ) is one of the historic counties of Scotland, covering an area in the south-west of the country. Until 1975, Wigtownshire was an administrative county used for local government. Since 1975 the area has f ...

at a by-election in 1873. Barnbarroch House, the ancestral seat of the Vans Agnew family, was a Classical house built in 1780, with later additions and remodelling by

John Claudius Loudon John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1783 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of ...

in 1806. The House is now a shell having been burnt in 1942, killing Mrs Vans Agnew.

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{{authority control Villages in Dumfries and Galloway