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Kirkandrews, a village and an ancient parish on the coast of Kirkcudbrightshire. The village, at the head of little Kirkandrews Bay, 7¾ miles WSW of Kirkcudbright, when Symson wrote (1684) was a place of some note, long the scene of an annual fair, with horse and foot races, but is now reduced to the condition of a small picturesque hamlet. The parish was annexed, in 1618 or earlier, to Borgue; its church, an edifice of the 15th or the 16th century, is now a ruin. Within the graveyard are buried a martyred Covenanter (1685) and William Nicholson (1783-1843), the Galloway pedlarpoet.—Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village and an ancient parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Kirkandrews |
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