Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Racks

Racks, a village in Torthorwald parish, Dumfriesshire, near the left bank of Lochar Water, with a station on the Glasgow and South-Western railway, 3¾ miles ESE of Dumfries.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Torthorwald Parish       Dumfries Shire County

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