Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Preston or Prestonmill

Preston or Prestonmill, a village in Kirkbean parish, SE Kirkcudbrightshire, 14 miles S of Dumfries, under which it has a post office. See Kirkbean.


(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: Kirkbean ScoP       Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty
Place names: PRESTON     |     PRESTONMILL     |     PRESTON OR PRESTONMILL
Place: Preston

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