Corsock village hall and post office - geograph

Corsock ( gd, Corsag) is a village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west

Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...

. It is located north of

Castle Douglas Castle Douglas ( gd, Caisteal Dhùghlais) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire, in the eastern part of Galloway, between the towns of Dalbeattie and Gatehouse of Fleet. It is in th ...

, and the same distance east of

New Galloway New Galloway ( gd, Gall-Ghàidhealaibh Nuadh) is a town in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway. It lies on the west side of the valley of the Water of Ken, north of the end of Loch Ken. Before the local governme ...

, on the

Urr Water Urr Water or River Urr ('' arc. River Orr'') is a river in which flows through the counties of Dumfriesshire and Kirkcudbrightshire in southwest Scotland. Course Entirely within Dumfries and Galloway, the Urr Water originates at Loch Urr and flo ...

. Corsock House is an 18th-century country house remodelled by David Bryce in 1853. A later addition was made by Charles Stuart Still Johnston in 1910. The gardens are open to the public under the Scotland's Garden Scheme each Spring. Corsock Church was built as a Free Church in 1851-52 by local architect William McCandlish. It was extended in 1912 by a Gothic stone arch and chancel by J.A McGregor.

Etymology

Corsock is a

Cumbric Cumbric was a variety of the Common Brittonic language spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the ''Hen Ogledd'' or "Old North" in what is now the counties of Westmorland, Cumberland and northern Lancashire in Northern England and the souther ...

name formed with the adjectival suffix ''-awg'' and either ''cors'' 'reeds, rushes, sedge' or ''crois'' 'cross'. If formed from ''cors'' it may have been an early name for the upper part of the Urr, meaning 'reedy place'. If formed from ''crois'' it would mean either 'place with a cross' or 'crossing place'.

References

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