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Bridge of Dee, Galloway

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For the district and bridge in Aberdeen, see Bridge of Dee. For the Old Dee Bridge in Chester, see Old Dee Bridge.
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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.

People from Bridge of Dee

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

Old Bridge of Dee

Horse carving on a coping stone

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









Footnotes

  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

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