Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kirkconnel

Kirkconnel.-- par. and vil. with ry. sta., NW. Dumfriesshire--par., 26,660 ac., pop. 1019; vil., on river Nith, 3¼ miles NW. of Sanquhar, pop. 464; P.O.; 1 mile W. of vil. are 2 mineral springs.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Kirkconnel ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty
Place: Kirkconnel

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