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567: 579: 595: 45: 551: 535: 29: 477:. A nearby caravan park has been named after them. The church was founded by Robert Bruce and has been much rebuilt and enlarged. The Douglas Family Mausoleum at Cummertrees parish church is traditional burial place of the Marquesses of Queensberry. There is also a private family burial ground dating from the mid 19th century for the Queensberry family on Gooley Hill within the policies of Kinmount House. 52: 430:. A Public hall was erected at Cummertrees in 1893. 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. The seaboard is low and sandy and features in 178: 566: 614:, a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, was born and lived much of her later life on the Kinmount estate at Glenstewart House after her husband lost his family seat through gambling. She had married 226: 1044: 915: 1227: 1099: 1009: 236: 83: 1257: 218: 908: 1039: 901: 244: 202: 44: 478: 690: 1262: 843: 578: 1431: 1426: 277: 1282: 816: 789: 726: 756: 520: 550: 505: 492:
a beautiful edifice, built in the early part of the 19th century at a cost of £40,000, and surrounded by fine pleasure grounds.
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The Douglas Family Mausoleum at Cummertrees Parish Church, traditional burial place of the Marquesses of Queensberry.
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Transactions and Journal of Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society
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village; the parish includes Powfoot and Trailtrow and is bounded by St Mungo and Hoddam,
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proposes the meaning 'confluence of turbulent water'. Alan James suggests that
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was the seat of the Marquesses of Queensberry, described by Groome in 1903 as
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in 1955. The fine station building survives as a private residence.
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and Murraythwaite. Historically, the main landowner has been the
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Seaside-style holiday houses in Cummertrees's Queensberry Terrace
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Memorial to Lord Francis Douglas in Cummertrees Parish Church.
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fought and lost a skirmish against the Southron (English).
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However, James notes that the first element may represent
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Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet
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Cummertrees parish includes some notable buildings,
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(1925). 542:Cummertrees railway station 502:Cummertrees railway station 394:, which occurs in the name 77:OS grid reference 10: 1448: 504:was opened in 1848 by the 401: 1316: 1163: 935: 345:Cummertrees, recorded as 313:is a coastal village and 253: 235: 217: 213: 201: 189: 177: 173: 161: 151: 141: 127: 109: 91: 75: 38: 26: 21: 237:Scottish Parliament 842:James, Alan G. (2013). 815:James, Alan G. (2014). 788:James, Alan G. (2014). 725:James, Alan G. (2014). 689:Breeze, Andrew (2005). 512:. It was closed by the 475:Marquess of Queensberry 375:. The first element is 599: 556:The parish church and 514:British Railways Board 163:Postcode district 1203:Colvend and Southwick 929:Dumfries and Galloway 770:: 147. Archived from 597: 323:Dumfries and Galloway 111:Lieutenancy area 101:Dumfries and Galloway 66:Dumfries and Galloway 1258:Kirkpatrick Irongray 853:: 45. Archived from 704:: 91. 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Cummertrees is located in Dumfries and Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway
OS grid reference
NY141664
Council area
Dumfries and Galloway
Lieutenancy area
Dumfriesshire
Country
Scotland
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
DG12
Police
Scotland
Fire
Scottish
Ambulance
Scottish
UK Parliament
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Scottish Parliament
Dumfriesshire
UK
Scotland
54°59′08″N 3°20′49″W / 54.98556°N 3.34694°W / 54.98556; -3.34694
civil parish
Annandale

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