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Kirkcudbright

American  
[ker-koo-bree] / kərˈku bri /

noun

  1. a historic county in SW Scotland.


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"To be honest, we just joke about it... I don't know if it's a coping mechanism," Hazel, who is studying for her Highers at Kirkcudbright Academy, told BBC Scotland News.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

The Kirkcudbright Bridge is shut to vehicles until further notice, leaving drivers in one residential area cut off from the rest of the Dumfries and Galloway town.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2025

Lindsay Forbes travelled to Edinburgh from Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, to see the Queen's coffin.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2022

He retired to near Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway in 2016 but worked part-time in practices across the region until 2019.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2022

He was born in 1774, at Lochrutton, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, of which his father and his grandfather were ministers successively, during a period of eighty years, a striking instance of pastoral permanence.

From The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Turnbull, Robert

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