Templand

Templand
Dumfriesshire
Approaching Templand
Location
Grid reference:	NY084861
Location:	55°9’41"N, 3°26’16"W
Data
Postcode:	DG11
Local Government
Council:	Dumfries and Galloway

Templand is a village in Dumfriesshire, in Annandale a few miles up the dale from Lockerbie.

Templand was built during the industrial revolution. When the nearby sandstone quarry (Corncockle Quarry) was built it became home to many quarry workers. Stone from the quarry was used in the construction of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow and was quarried for the refurbishment of the gallery completed in 2006. At its height of activity up to the 1930s it had its own mineral line from what is now the West Coast Mainline and up to 6 trains a week of stone were moved to Glasgow, and thence distributed widely: it is believed the Rockefeller Building in New York was faced with Corncockle stone.

Templand lies between the Corncockle woodland, a marsh, and the Kinnel Water. Geographically it is believed that the entire Templand area is on a massive slab of sandstone.

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