Cummertrees
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Cummertrees is a coastal village and parish of Annandale in Dumfries and Galloway. It is a rural, primarily residential village with a name of doubtful etymology.
The village is about a mile inland, on Pow Water, twelve miles from Dumfries, and three from Annan.
The parish includes Powfoot and Trailtrow and is bounded by St Mungo and Hoddam, Annan, the Solway Firth, and Ruthwell and Dalton. The river Annan is at the northern boundary. It has a wide area of level sand swept by a 'bore' which can move at ten miles an hour. The seaboard is low and sandy and features in Walter Scott's novel Redgauntlet. The ground rises a little inland, to 350 feet on Repentance Hill.
The geology is mainly Devonian, with old limestone workings at Kelhead and some sandstone quarries.
In a field called Bruce's Acres, at Broom Farm, Robert Bruce fought the English.
Cummertrees includes some notable buildings, Hoddam Castle, Kinmount and Murraythwaite. Historically, the main landowner has been the Marquess of Queensberry. The church was founded by Robert Bruce and has been much rebuilt and enlarged.
[edit] Notable residents
- Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), travel writer, war correspondent, and feminist, a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, was born and lived much of her later life on the Kinmount estate.
- Lord Francis Douglas (1847 – 14 July 1865) was a British mountaineer born in Cummertrees. After sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn, he died in a fall on the way down from the summit
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