Maxwelltown
Maxwelltown was formerly a burgh of barony and police burgh and by the time of the burgh's abolition in 1929 it was the most populous burgh in the county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Bridgend”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dumfries Museum and Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre.
Dumfries Museum
Museum
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Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura, located in Dumfries in Dumfries & Galloway, is the largest museum in the region. The museum has extensive collections relating to local and history from the pre-historic era.
Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre
Museum
Photo: John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Robert Burns Visitor’s Centre is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Troqueer and Dumfries.
Troqueer
Suburb
Photo: Chris Newman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Troqueer is a former village and a parish in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway on the west side of the River Nith. The eastern-side was merged with Dumfries to the east in 1929, and today eastern Troqueer is a suburb of Dumfries.
Dumfries
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Dumfries is the principal town of Dumfries and Galloway in southwest Scotland. It's a pleasant market town, with a population of 46,500 in 2020. Robert Burns the poet spent his last years here: from 1788 to 1791 at Ellisland Farm 7 miles north, then in Dumfries town until his death, aged 37.
The Crichton
Suburb
Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Crichton is an institutional campus in Dumfries in southwest Scotland. It serves as a remote campus for the University of Glasgow, the University of the West of Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway College, and the Open University.
Maxwelltown
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
55.06477° or 55° 3′ 53″ northLongitude
-3.61705° or 3° 37′ 1″ westElevation
59 feet (18 metres)Open location code
9C7R397M+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 12571014270OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Irish to Scots—“Maxwelltown” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Ceann Drochaid”
- Scots: “Maxwelltoun”
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Notable Places Nearby
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