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Gretna

Gretna, together with Gretna Green, is a border town in in southwest Scotland, with a population of 3400 in 2022; the name refers to grit or gravel.
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  • Type: Town with 3,150 residents
  • Description: town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway”
  • Postal code: DG16

Places of Interest

Highlights include Raydale Park and Gretna Green railway station.

Sports venue
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a football in Gretna, . 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.

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 Gretna and village of in , Scotland.

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 Gretna.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Longtown and Metal Bridge.

Town
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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 4 miles east of Gretna.

Hamlet
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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 2½ miles southeast of Gretna.

Hamlet
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is a small village on the outskirts of Carlisle, , England. The village's name is from Old English tota-hyll "look-out hill". Located north of Carlisle, nestled between the border city and Gretna, is so small that it really is known as a hamlet and not a village. is situated 4 miles southeast of Gretna.

Gretna

Latitude
54.9953° or 54° 59′ 43″ north
Longitude
-3.0669° or 3° 4′ 1″ west
Population
3,150
Elevation
56 feet (17 metres)
Open location code
9C6RXWWM+46
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20981539
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2647910
Wiki­data ID
Q2282115
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Gretna” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Gretna”
  • Basque: “Gretna”
  • Cebuano: “Gretna”
  • Chinese: “格雷特纳”
  • Chinese: “格雷那”
  • Czech: “Gretna”
  • Dutch: “Gretna”
  • French: “Gretna”
  • German: “Gretna”
  • Hebrew: “גרטנה”
  • Irish: “Greatna”
  • Italian: “Gretna”
  • Japanese: “グレットナ”
  • Japanese: “グレトナ (ダンフリース・アンド・ギャロウェイ)”
  • Korean: “그레트나”
  • Lithuanian: “Gretna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gretna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gretna i Skottland”
  • Norwegian: “Gretna”
  • Persian: “گرتنا، دامفریس و گالووی”
  • Persian: “گرتنا”
  • Polish: “Gretna”
  • Russian: “Гретна”
  • Scots: “Gretna”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Greatna”
  • Slovak: “Gretna”
  • Spanish: “Gretna”
  • Swedish: “Gretna, Skottland”
  • Welsh: “Gretna”
  • “Gretna”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Gretna”. Photo: Amanda Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0.