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  • Kirkcudbright, which is, of course, on the northern side of the

    Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841

  • Solway Books 14 St Cuthbert Street, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway DG6 4HZ, 01557 330635Keith Chadband used to drive to work along London's gritty Old Kent Road, but these days his commute hugs the glorious Kirkcudbrightshire coastline.

    Independent bookshops in Scotland 2011

  • The few people who lived in isolated cottages, farmhouses, and hamlets along the coast still referred to it as "the main road," but it had long since fallen victim to the anorexia of a bypass and settled into bucolic anonymity, troubled only by the mundane passage of locals heading to or from shops or jobs or schools in the small towns of Dumfries and Kirkcudbright.

    The Body Ricardo 2010

  • He escaped from Edinburgh and the rigours of his research to his cottage at Parton, Kirkcudbright, spending time in his garden and working on his poetry.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • He escaped from Edinburgh and the rigours of his research to his cottage at Parton, Kirkcudbright, spending time in his garden and working on his poetry.

    Poetic Obituaries: Dave [Summers] wrote poetry throughout Rus Bowden 2009

  • DU projectiles have been fired from Kirkcudbright into the Solway Firth since 1982 and the numbers fired to date are shown in the following table.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • The few people who lived in isolated cottages, farmhouses, and hamlets along the coast still referred to it as "the main road," but it had long since fallen victim to the anorexia of a bypass and settled into bucolic anonymity, troubled only by the mundane passage of locals heading to or from shops or jobs or schools in the small towns of Dumfries and Kirkcudbright.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

  • Freemasonry, which had a lodge in Kirkcudbright, was spreading through Great Britain and the colonies.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • Hewes and Jones apparently stayed at the same Walnut Street house in Philadelphia owned by another Scottish merchant from Kirkcudbright, David Sproat.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • He had been thrown in jail once before upon returning from a cruise, and he rankled at the memory of his days in the Tolbooth of Kirkcudbright, unjustly accused in the Mungo Maxwell affair.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

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