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Thomas Carlyle's Birthplace, Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire

Ecclefechan Ecclefechan is a small village in Annandale in Dumfriesshire. It is a modest village with just a shop or two and local services, but three hotels, of which "The Ecclefechan Hotel" with its white-painted frontage is prominent on the High Street. The village is most famous as being the home of the historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle, whose birthplace in the village is prominently signposted from the motorway. (Read more)