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Bridge of Dee, Galloway

Coordinates: 54°55′07″N 3°58′42″W / 54.918674°N 3.978377°W / 54.918674; -3.978377
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Kirkcudbright Railway
Castle Douglas
Castle Douglas St Andrew Street
Bridge of Dee
Tarff
Kirkcudbright
Bridge of Dee Station

Bridge of Dee, Galloway is a settlement on the River Dee, Galloway. It lies on the A75 just west of Castle Douglas, and north-east of Kirkcudbright.

The former Kirkcudbright Railway, linking Kirkcudbright with Castle Douglas, passed through the village. The station is now a house.[1]

People from Bridge of Dee

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  • William Allan Forsyth Hepburn FRSE OBE MC LLD (1891-1950) educationalist[2]

Old Bridge of Dee

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Horse carving on a coping stone

The old bridge was possibly a packhorse bridge, hence the carving.









Footnotes

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  1. ^ "Kirkcudbright Railway". RailScot. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  2. ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2016-10-24.

54°55′07″N 3°58′42″W / 54.918674°N 3.978377°W / 54.918674; -3.978377