Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Locharbriggs

Locharbriggs, a village in the N of Dumfries parish, Dumfriesshire, near the right bank of Lochar Water, with a station on the Dumfries and Lockerbie section of the Caledonian railway, 2¾ miles NNE of Dumfries. It adjoins a rising-ground, which superstition long regarded as a trysting-place of witches. Pop. (1881) 306.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dumfries ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty

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