Crocketford

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Crocketford
Kirkcudbrightshire
Location
Grid reference: NX831722
Location: 55°1’52"N, 3°49’49"W
Data
Postcode: DG2
Local Government
Council: Dumfries and Galloway
Parliamentary
constituency:
Dumfries and Galloway

Crocketford, also known as Ninemile Bar, is a village in Kirkcudbrightshire. It is located on the A75 road around 9 miles west of Dumfries, on the way to Castle Douglas. (Crocketford is one of only two villages which the A75 drives through unbypassed, the other being Springholm two miles to the south-west.)

There is a 5-acre playing field at Crocketford which is a King George V Playing Field.

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