Scotland
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Gretna Green

Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of , , close to the town of Gretna, on the Scottish side of the English-Scottish border.
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Photo: Niki Odolphie, CC BY 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gretna Green railway station and Raydale Park.

Railway station
Photo: Stephen Armstrong, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gretna Green is a railway station on the Glasgow South Western Line, which runs between and via . The station, situated 9 miles 58 chains north-west of Carlisle, serves the town of and village of Gretna Green in , Scotland.

Sports venue
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a football in , . It is home to Lowland League side Gretna 2008 and now has a capacity of 1,030. Raydale formerly served as the home ground of Gretna until the club resigned from the Scottish Football League in 2008.

Ruins
Photo: Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a megalith on the shore of the in , Scotland. It lies by the mouth of the , near the town of . is situated 1½ miles south of Gretna Green.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gretna and Metal Bridge.

Photo: Amanda Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, together with Green, is a border town in in southwest Scotland, with a population of 3400 in 2022; the name refers to grit or gravel.

Hamlet
Photo: Adrian Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small settlement in , England between Carlisle and Gretna, formerly on the main A74 road. The settlement consists of a few properties clustered around a public house of the same name, on the south bank of the River Esk, in a corner of parish. is situated 3 miles southeast of Gretna Green.

Town
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a market town in , but in the historic county of Cumberland, England, just south of the Scottish Border. It has a sheep market which was at the centre of the 2001 United Kingdom foot-and-mouth crisis. is situated 3½ miles east of Gretna Green.

Gretna Green

Latitude
55.00494° or 55° 0′ 18″ north
Longitude
-3.06273° or 3° 3′ 46″ west
Elevation
102 feet (31 metres)
United Nations Location Codes
GB XGG and GB GRT
Open location code
9C7R2W3P+XW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287613255
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2647909
Wiki­data ID
Q1026315
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Gretna Green” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غرتنا غرين”
  • Basque: “Gretna Green”
  • Bulgarian: “Гретна Грийн”
  • Dutch: “Gretna Green”
  • Esperanto: “Gretna Green”
  • French: “Gretna Green”
  • German: “Gretna Green”
  • Hebrew: “גרטנה גרין”
  • Hungarian: “Gretna Green”
  • Italian: “Gretna Green”
  • Japanese: “グレトナ・グリーン”
  • Korean: “그레트나그린”
  • Persian: “گرتنا گرین”
  • Polish: “Gretna Green”
  • Russian: “Гретна-Грин”
  • Scots: “Gretna Green”
  • Spanish: “Gretna Green”
  • Swedish: “Gretna Green”
  • Uzbek: “Gretna Grin”
  • Welsh: “Gretna Green”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Gretna Green”. Photo: Niki Odolphie, CC BY 2.0.