Tinwald is a village 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 ...

, south-west Scotland, lying a little north of Locharbriggs outside

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. Tinwald is also the name of a

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in the county of

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. The village is near the former

RAF Tinwald Downs Royal Air Force Dumfries or more simply RAF Dumfries was a former Royal Air Force station located near Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway Scotland. The airfield opened on 17 June 1940 and was sold in 1960 to a private firm. The disused airfield ...

which is the now the Dumfries Aviation Museum.

Tinwald Church

The church, built in 1769 on the foundations of an earlier church, is on the side of Tinwald Hill and visible from the A701 road. The barony and rectory of Tinwald, before and after the

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, belonged to the Maxwell family, who appointed the vicars and later the ministers. In 1504 Willelmus Blak was vicar of Tynwald. On 13 July 1619 Robert Maxwell was served heir to his father, John Maxwell of "terris de Tynwald" in "baroniam de Tynwald".

Tinwald Mote

In the 15th century the Tinwald Mote was still the

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or "legal head of the

barony Barony may refer to: * Barony, the peerage, office of, or territory held by a baron * Barony, the title and land held in fealty by a feudal baron * Barony (county division), a type of administrative or geographical division in parts of the British ...

, where

sasine Sasine in Scots law is the delivery of Feudalism, feudal property, typically land. Feudal property means immovable property, and includes everything that naturally goes with the property. For land, that would include such things as buildings, tre ...

ossessionof the lands was given by the ceremony of handing to the grantee, before witnesses, a handful of earth and stone from the 'head messuage called the Mote near the church of Tynwald".Mackenzie, W. Mackay (1927). ''The Mediaeval Castle in Scotland.'' London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. p. 17.

Notable people

* William Paterson (1658–1719), banker, born at Tinwald *

John Charteris Brigadier General John Charteris, (8 January 1877 – 4 February 1946) was a British Army officer. During the First World War, he was the Chief of Intelligence at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters from 1915 to 1918. In later ...

(1877–1946), British Army brigadier-general, buried in Tinwald Church churchyard

References

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