Kirkbean
Sign in to saveKirkbean () is a Scottish village and civil parish on the Solway Firth, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire and council area of Dumfries and Galloway. In the 2001 census, the four small villages making up the parish of Kirkbean had a total population of 643. It includes the hamlet of Loaningfoot.
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- Locality
- Carsethorn
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 643
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- Kirkbean - Telephone Box and Bus stop - geograph.org.uk - 663201.jpg
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- Kirkbean
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- historic county
- Kirkcudbrightshire
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Kirkbean () is a Scottish village and civil parish on the Solway Firth, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire and council area of Dumfries and Galloway. In the 2001 census, the four small villages making up the parish of Kirkbean had a total population of 643. It includes the hamlet of Loaningfoot.
==History== The parish was the departure point for thousands of Scots seeking a better life in the American and Australian colonies during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Convicts were also transported to Australia from here. This has made Kirkbean a rich source of genealogical history.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kirkbean” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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