Bridge of Dee, Galloway

Bridge of Dee, Galloway is a settlement on the River Dee, Galloway. It lies on the A75 just west of Castle Douglas, and north-east of Kirkcudbright.

For the district and bridge in Aberdeen, see Bridge of Dee. For the Old Dee Bridge in Chester, see Old Dee Bridge.
Kirkcudbright Railway
Up arrow
Castle Douglas & Dumfries Rly
to Dumfries
 Castle Douglas
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Portpatrick & Wigtownshire Jt Rly
to Stranraer
 Castle Douglas St Andrew Street
 Bridge of Dee
 Tarff
 Kirkcudbright
Bridge of Dee Station

The former Kirkcudbright Railway, linking Kirkcudbright with Castle Douglas, passed through the village. The station is now a house.[1]

People from Bridge of Dee
  • William Allan Forsyth Hepburn FRSE OBE MC LLD (1891-1950) educationalist[2]

Old Bridge of Dee
Horse carving on a coping stone

The old bridge was possibly a packhorse bridge, hence the carving.









Footnotes
  1. "Kirkcudbright Railway". RailScot. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  2. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-01-24. Retrieved 2016-10-24.
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