In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Blackshaw like this:
Blackshaw, a village in Caerlaverock parish, Dumfriesshire, near the Solway Firth and the river Lochar, 8 miles SSE of Dumfries- An expanse of foreshore adjacent to it, between the Nith and the Lochar, and between the beach and the Solway channel, measuring 7 miles in extreme length from E to W, and fully 5 miles in extreme breadth from N to S, is called Blackshaw Bank
Blackshaw through time
Blackshaw is now part of Dumfries and Galloway district. Click here for graphs and data of how Dumfries and Galloway has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Blackshaw itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Blackshaw, in Dumfries and Galloway and Dumfries Shire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21978
Date accessed: 06th June 2024
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