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MAXWELLTOWN

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 930 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MAXWELLTOWN , a
burgh
  of barony and police
burgh
  of
Kirkcudbrightshire
 ,
Scotland
 . Pop. (1901), 5796. It lies on the Nith, opposite to Dumfries, with which it is connected by three bridges, being united with it for parliamentary purposes. It has a station on the Glasgow &
South
 -Western line from Dumfries to Kirkcudbright. Its public buildings include a court-
house
 , the prison for the
south
 -west of
Scotland
 , and an
observatory
  and museum, housed in a disused windmill. The
chief
  manufactures are woollens and hosiery, besides dyeworks and 'sawmills. It was a hamlet known as Bridgend up till 18ro, in which year it was erected into a burgh of barony under its present name. To the north-west lies the parish of Terregles, said to be a corruption of Tir-eglwys (terra ecclesia, that is, " Kirk land "). The parish contains the beautiful ruin of Lincluden Abbey (see DUMFRIES), and Terregles
House
 , once the seat of William Maxwell, last
earl
  of Nithsdale. In the parish of Lochrutton, a few miles south-west of Maxwelltown, there is a good example of a stone circle, the " Seven Grey Sisters," and an old peel-tower in the Mains of Hills.


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