Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Blackwood

Blackwood, seat, in co. and 9 miles NW. of Dumfries, on river Nith; on the estate was born Allan Cunningham (1784-1842), poet and novelist.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Dumfries Shire County

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