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Dumfriesshire
/ dʌmˈfriːsˌʃɪə; -ʃə /
noun
- (until 1975) a county in S Scotland, on the Solway Firth, now part of Dumfries and Galloway
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There is a wild, uninhabited district, which separates Nithsdale from Annandale, in Dumfriesshire.
Ben's father, it's weel ken't, was a Johnston o' Annandale in Dumfriesshire, a bauld guid family there to this day.
Creehope Linn was a well-known retreat of the old Covenanters in Dumfriesshire.
Potatoes were introduced in Dumfriesshire some time after 1750, and the use of lime as manure at about the same time.
The small river Scarr in Dumfriesshire forms for six miles a boundary between different parishes.
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