Kirkcudbright
Sign in to saveKirkcudbright ( ; ) is a town at the mouth of the River Dee in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, southwest of Castle Douglas and Dalbeattie. A former royal burgh, it is the traditional county town of Kirkcudbrightshire.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.official_name
- Kirkcudbright
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Cille Chùithbeirt
- UK place.population_ref
- ()
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NX685505
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Dumfries and Galloway
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Dumfries and Galloway
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Galloway and West Dumfries
- UK place.post_town
- KIRKCUDBRIGHT
- UK place.postcode_district
- DG6
- UK place.postcode_area
- DG
- UK place.dial_code
- 01557
- UK place.static_image_name
- File:Aerial view of Kirkcudbright & the River Dee (geograph 3644499).jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Aerial view of Kirkcudbright and the River Dee
- UK place.edinburgh_distance_mi
- 84
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 282
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Kirkcudbright ( ; ) is a town at the mouth of the River Dee in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, southwest of Castle Douglas and Dalbeattie. A former royal burgh, it is the traditional county town of Kirkcudbrightshire.
==History== An early rendition of the name of the town was Kilcudbrit; this derives from the Gaelic Cille Chuithbeirt meaning "chapel of Cuthbert", the saint whose mortal remains were kept at the town between their exhumation at Lindisfarne and reinterment at Chester-le-Street.