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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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Southerness, a village in Kirkbean parish, SE Kirkcudbrightshire, at Southerness Point, on the Solway Firth, 10 miles SE of Dalbeattie, and 16 S of Dumfries. It was built some time after the middle of last century by Oswald of Auchencruive near Ayr, in the expectation of its becoming a mining-village and depôt for coal; but the desired mineral having been vainly searched for in the neighbourhood, the village became transmuted into a sea-bathing retreat. Southerness Point screens the W side of the entrance of the estuary of the Nith, and is crowned by a disused lighthouse.—Ord. Sur., sh. 6, 1863.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kirkbean ScoP Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Southerness |
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