Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Eaglesfield

Eaglesfield, a village in Middlebie parish, Dumfriesshire, on the right side of Kirtle Water, 7 furlongs NNE of Kirtlebridge station on the Caledonian, and 2¾ miles E of Ecclefechan, under which it has a post office, with money order and savings' bank departments. Here is also a General Assembly's school.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Middlebie ScoP       Dumfries Shire ScoCnty
Place: Eaglesfield

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