Mouswald
Sign in to savethumb|330px|Rural landscape at Mouswald thumb|330px|Mouswald Parish Church Mouswald is a rural village slightly east of Dumfries in south-west Scotland. It lies on the B724 south of the A75. The site views southward over the Solway Firth.
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Place details
- Locality
- Mouswald
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Mouswald
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.population
- 284
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NY066727
- UK place.post_town
- Dumfries
- UK place.postcode_area
- DG1 4
- UK place.dial_code
- 01387 830...
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale (UK Parliament constituency)
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Dumfriesshire (Scottish Parliament constituency)
- UK place.london_distance_mi
- 329
- UK place.edinburgh_distance_mi
- 78
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Dumfriesshire
- UK place.website
- Council website
- UK place.static_image
- Downhill to Mouswald - geograph.org.uk - 704399.jpg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Downhill to Mouswald - geograph.org.uk - 704399.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mouswald
- historic county
- Dumfriesshire
- P8168
- Kernilis
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- Notable residents
- References
thumb|330px|Rural landscape at Mouswald thumb|330px|Mouswald Parish Church Mouswald is a rural village slightly east of Dumfries in south-west Scotland. It lies on the B724 south of the A75. The site views southward over the Solway Firth.
==History== A Scandinavian settlement began here in the 9th century and the name Mouswald is said to derive from the Danish mosi vollr, meaning mossy field.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mouswald” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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