Kirkcudbright, Dumfries & Galloway - Harbour from Stell - postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Kirkcudbright Harbour from the Stell, Dumfries & Galloway
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^{Kirkcudbright (/kərˈkuːbriː/ kirr-koo-bree; Scottish Gaelic: Cille Chuithbeirt) is a town and parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the lieutenancy area and historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town.}

^{The town lies southwest of Castle Douglas and Dalbeattie at the mouth of the River Dee, some four miles from the Irish Sea.}

^{An early rendition of the name of the town was Kilcudbrit;[2] this derives from the Gaelic Cille Chuithbeirt meaning "chapel of Cuthbert", the Anglian saint whose mortal remains were kept at the town between their exhumation at Lindisfarne and reinterment at Chester-le-Street.[3]}

^{Spottiswood, in his account of religious houses in Scotland, mentions that the Franciscans or Grey Friars had been established at Kirkcudbright from the 12th century.[4] No traces of the Greyfriars or Franciscan dwellings remain in the parish of Kirkcudbright.}

^{In 1453 Kirkcudbright became a royal burgh,[5] and about a century later, the magistrates of the town obtained permission from Queen Mary to use part of the convent and nunnery as a parish church. From around 1570, Sir Thomas MacLellan of Bombie, the chief magistrate, received a charter for the site, its grounds and gardens. MacLellan dismantled the church in order to obtain material for his new castle, a very fine house, which was built on the site.[6]}

^{After defeat at the Battle of Towton, Henry VI of England crossed the Solway Firth in August 1461 to land at Kirkcudbright in support of Queen Margaret at Linlithgow. The town also for some time withstood a siege in 1547 from the English commander Sir Thomas Carleton but after the surrounding countryside had been overrun was compelled to surrender.[7]}

^{Kirkcudbright Tolbooth was built between 1625 and 1629 and served not only as the tolbooth, but also the council offices, the burg and sheriff courts, the criminal prison and the debtors' prison. One of the most famous prisoners was John Paul Jones, hero of the American navy, who was born in nearby Kirkbean.[8][9]}

^{The Kirkcudbright Railway opened in 1864 but the railway line and station closed in 1965.[10]}

^{The war memorial dates from 1922 and is by George Henry Paulin.[11]}

^{Like many other remote areas during World War II, a 4,700-acre (19 km2) area to the southeast of the town and extending to the coast of the Solway Firth, was acquired by the Army in 1942, as a training area for the D Day invasion.[12][13] The area remains in active use for live-firing exercises to this day. Part of the training area is the Dundrennan Range, a weapons development and testing range. The use of this range for the testing of depleted uranium shells has been controversial.[14][15] The range also contains one of the two surviving A39 Tortoiseheavy assault tanks from the six prototypes originally produced. The 32-pdr gun has been removed and the tank is used for target practice. Due to the range's designation as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, removal of the tank to a museum is unlikely.}