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In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Southerness like this:
Southerness, a village in Kirkbean parish, SE Kirkcudbrightshire, at Southerness Point, on the Solway Firth, 10 miles SE of Dalbeattie, and 16 S of Dumfries. It was built some time after the middle of last century by Oswald of Auchencruive near Ayr, in the expectation of its becoming a mining-village and depôt for coal; but the desired mineral having been vainly searched for in the neighbourhood, the village became transmuted into a sea-bathing retreat. ...
Southerness Point screens the W side of the entrance of the estuary of the Nith, and is crowned by a disused lighthouse.—Ord. Sur., sh. 6, 1863.
Southerness is now part of DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY Council. Click here for graphs and data of how DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Southerness itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Southerness, in Dumfries and Galloway and Kirkcudbrightshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22272
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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