Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Dinwoodie

Dinwoodie, a station in Applegarth parish, Annandale, Dumfriesshire, on the Caledonian railway, 6 miles NNW of Lockerbie. Dinwoodie Hill (871 feet), 1½ mile to the ENE, is crowned with two hill-forts; and on its SE slope is the graveyard of a chapel, said to have belonged to the Knights Templars.


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

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Feature Description: "a station"   (ADL Feature Type: "railroad features")
Administrative units: Applegarth ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty

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