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Kirkcudbright
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Kirkcudbright, town, Scotland

Kirkcudbright (kûrk`brē), town (1991 pop. 3,406), Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, at the head of the Dee estuary. It has granaries and creameries and is a market town and artists' colony. There are traces of an ancient wall and moat and of a McClellan clan castle (1582).

Kirkcudbright, former county, Scotland

Kirkcudbright, former county, Scotland: see Kirkcudbrightshire Kirkcudbrightshire or Kirkcudbright, former county, SW Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Kirkcudbrightshire became (1975) part of the new Dumfries and Galloway region (now a council area).
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Kirkcudbright 

(also Kurcudbrightshire), a county in Great Britain, in Scotland. Area, 2,300 sq km; population, 27,600 (1970). The administrative center is the city of Kirkcudbright.



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What is so remarkable about Galloway, an offshoot of the Arrol-Johnston company, is that its original factory at Tongland, Kirkudbright, was staffed mainly by women.
About 7000 depleted-uraniam shells have been fired into the sea from the 30-year-old Dundrennan range at Kirkudbright in the past 20 years.
Yesterday it was the tiny town of Kirkudbright and one of the most scenic grounds in the country.
 
 
 
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