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Crocketford, a village on the mutual border of Urr and Kirkpatrick-Durham parishes, Kirkcudbrightshire, near Achenreoch and Milton Lochs, 9 miles WSW of Dumfries. Founded by the Buchanites in 1787, it has a post office under Dumfries, and a public school; near it is Crocketford House.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Kirkcudbrightshire County |
| Place: | Crocketford |
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