British Place Names

New Abbey, Dumfries and Galloway

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New Abbey is a village in Dumfries and Galloway

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Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of New Abbey within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

New Abbey in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

New Abbey*, par. and vil., Kirkcudbrightshire-par., 13,199 ac., pop. 906; vil., 7½ miles S. of Dumfries; P.O.; near the vil. is the fine ruin of a Cistercian abbey (Sweetheart Abbey) founded in 1275 by Devergoil.

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