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Caerlaverock (; ) is a
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Caerlaverock (; ) is a civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the no ...
, Scotland.
The parish was historically in Dumfriesshire
Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries () is a Counties of Scotland, historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the hi ...
. The area includes:
* Caerlaverock Castle, a 13th-century castle, located south of Dumfries, Scotland
* Caerlaverock National Nature Reserve, a National Nature Reserve in the Solway Firth, south-west Scotland
* WWT Caerlaverock, a Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust nature reserve, located south of Dumfries, Scotland
Etymology
The name ''Caerlaverock'' is of Brittonic origin. The first part of the name is the element ''cajr'' meaning "an enclosed, defensible site", ( Welsh ''caer'', "fort, city"). The second part of the name may be the personal name ''Lïμarch'' (Welsh ''Llywarch''), or a lost stream-name formed from the adjective ''laβar'', "talkative" (Welsh ''llafar'', see Afon Llafar), suffixed with ''–ǭg'', "having the quality of", or the adjectival suffix ''-īg''. The present form has been influenced by the Scots word ''laverock'', "skylark".External links
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Geography of Dumfries and Galloway Dumfriesshire Civil parishes of Scotland Parishes in Dumfries and Galloway {{DumfriesGalloway-geo-stub