Cummertrees
| Cummertrees | |
| Dumfriesshire | |
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 Seaside-style holiday houses in Cummertrees | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY148657 |
| Location: | 54°58’46"N, 3°19’56"W |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | DG12 |
| Local Government | |
Cummertrees is a coastal village and parish of Annandale in Dumfriesshire. It lies about a mile inland, on the Pow Water, above its mouth on the Solway Firth at Powsfoot, and three miles from Annan.
Cummertrees is rural, primarily residential village; the parish includes Powfoot and Trailtrow and is bounded by St Mungo and Hoddam, Annan, the Solway Firth, and Ruthwell and Dalton.
The seaboard is low and sandy and features in Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet. The ground rises a little inland, to 350 feet on Repentance Hill.[1] The river Annan is at the northern boundary. It has a wide area of level sand swept by the Solway bore, which can move at around ten miles an hour and can often be heard throughout the parish.
History
A public hall was erected at Cummertrees in 1893.[1]
The local geology is mainly Devonian, with old limestone workings at Kelhead and some sandstone quarries.[1]
In a field called Bruce's Acres, at Broom Farm, Robert Bruce fought and lost a skirmish.
Cummertrees parish includes some notable buildings, Hoddam Castle, Kinmount and Murraythwaite. Historically, the main landowner has been the Marquess of Queensberry. The church was founded by Robert Bruce and has been much rebuilt and enlarged.[1]
Kinmount House
Kinmount House was the seat of the Marquesses of Queensberry, described by Groome in 1903 as a beautiful edifice, built in the early part of the 19th century at a cost of £40,000, and surrounded by fine pleasure grounds.[2]
Transport
Cummertrees railway station was opened in 1848 by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, which then became part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. It was closed by the British Railways Board in 1955. The fine station building survives as a private residence.
Views of Cummertrees
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The old Cummertrees station -
The parish church and lychgate -
The Douglas family Mausoleum at the Parish Church -
Holiday apartments at Agnes Hill
Outside links
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References
- Groome, Francis H. (1903). Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland. London : Caxton Publishing Company.
- Johnston, J. B. (1903). Place-names of Scotland. Edinburgh : David Douglas