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Ecclefechan
Sign in to saveEcclefechan (Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais Fheichein) is a village located in Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland.
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Place details
- Locality
- Ecclefechan
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 850
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Ecclefechan
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Eaglais Fheichein
- UK place.local_name
- Fechan
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NY193748
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Dumfries and Galloway
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Dumfries
- UK place.post_town
- LOCKERBIE
- UK place.postcode_district
- DG11
- UK place.postcode_area
- DG
- UK place.dial_code
- 01576
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Dumfriesshire
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Population
- 880
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Ecclefechan - geograph.org.uk - 387277.jpg
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- Commons category
- Ecclefechan
- historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- P8168
- thalidomide
- OS grid reference
- NY193746
- P12749
- Wilhelm Kühne
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Governance
- Places of interest
- Notable residents
- Culture
- Local produce
- See also
- References
Ecclefechan (Scottish Gaelic: Eaglais Fheichein) is a village located in Dumfries and Galloway in the south of Scotland.
The village is famous for being the birthplace of Thomas Carlyle.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ecclefechan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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