CastleDouglas.net
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Castle Douglas
Description
As a Food Town, Castle Douglas can draw on ancient traditions. In a field beside the Urr Valley Country House Hotel there are two prehistoric standing stones. These were erected by farmers over 4000 years ago. Ever since then the wealth of the land has been recognised by everyone; from the Celts and the Romans, through the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings to Archibald the Grim who built his castle at Threave in 1369.
As a town, Castle Douglas is just over 200 years old. Back in 1789, Sir William Douglas planned and then built a ‘cotton town’ and named it after himself. The Georgian street pattern of Castle Douglas is all that remains of Sir William’s ambitious plan. It was an agricultural rather than an industrial revolution, which helped the town prosper as a market and commercial centre throughout the 1 9th and 20th centuries.
Every year thousands of cattle from the farms around Castle Douglas and across Galloway were exported to England. At first along the old drove roads, later by steam ship to Liverpool.
Contact
- Finlay H Carson and John K Carson trading as Carson Management S
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- Kirkcudbrightshire
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland DG6 4TA
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- 441557870256
