In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Kirkandrews like this:
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.
Kirkandrews through time
Kirkandrews 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 Kirkandrews itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Kirkandrews, in Dumfries and Galloway and Kirkcudbrightshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22189
Date accessed: 01st July 2024
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