Rowanburn

Rowanburn
Dumfriesshire
Priorhill Cottages, Rowanburn
Location
Grid reference:	NY409772
Location:	55°5’11"N, 2°55’35"W
Data
Postcode:	DG14
Local Government
Council:	Dumfries and Galloway
Parliamentary constituency:	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale

Rowanburn is a hamlet in Eskdale, Dumfriesshire, near Canonbie, and about five miles south-east of Langholm. It is less than a mile from the Liddel Water, which marks the boundary with Cumberland.

Rowanburn was founded as a coal mining community in the late 19th century to house miners from the Canonbie coalfield. The coal mines are now closed.

To the south of the village, by a separated hamlet known as Rowanburnfoot, is the Riddings Viaduct, a nine-span railway viaduct built in 1864 for the Border Union Railway crossing the Liddel Water between Dumfriesshire and Cumberland.

Rowanburn's only village shop, and garden centre, closed in 2003.

Several farms in the area were devastated by the 2001 foot and mouth crisis which spread rapidly through the local livestock market at Longtown, Cumberland.

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