Dundrennan (
Gaelic: ''Dun Droighnein'') is a village
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about east of
Kirkcudbright
Kirkcudbright ( ; sco, Kirkcoubrie; gd, Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a Royal Burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
The town lies southwest of ...
. Its population is around 230. Dundrennan is located in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of Rerrick in the historic county of
Kirkcudbrightshire
Kirkcudbrightshire ( ), or the County of Kirkcudbright or the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright is one of the historic counties of Scotland, covering an area in the south-west of the country. Until 1975, Kirkcudbrightshire was an administrative count ...
.
It is most notable for the ruins of
Dundrennan Abbey
Dundrennan Abbey, in Dundrennan, Scotland, near to Kirkcudbright, was a Cistercian monastery in the Romanesque architectural style, established in 1142 by Fergus of Galloway, King David I of Scotland (1124–53), and monks from Rievaulx Abbey. T ...
, a 12th-century
Cistercian monastery. The weapons testing establishment
Dundrennan Range is also nearby.
From 2001 until 2015 the
Wickerman music festival was held on the nearby farm of East Kirkcarswell.
Dundrennan is a
Gaelic name meaning 'hill of thorns' from the words ''dùn'' 'fortified place, hill' and ''droigheann'' 'blackthorn, bramble'.
It is recorded in c.1160 as ''Dundrainan''.
Dundrennan Air Crash
On 18 July 1944 at 12:15am, on a night training exercise from RAF Carlisle, Crosby-on-Eden, an RAF Beaufighter crashed into a house in the main street. Four members of the Hamilton family died along with the two airmen
Their names are.
James Hamilton aged 35 and his wife Georgina aged 33, their children Henry aged 10 and Agnes aged 8.
(Daughter Georgina aged 12 survived.)
Also the 2 airmen who died in the crash.
F/S Henry Wiles (RAFVR) Aged 21 from Aldershot, buried at Aldershot Civilian Cemetery.
Sgt. Eric Young (RAFVR) Aged 21 from Huddersfield, plaque at Leeds Lawns Wood Crematorium.
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Climate
Dundrennan has an
oceanic climate (
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
: ''Cfb'').
See also
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List of places in Dumfries and Galloway
''Map of places in Dumfries and Galloway compiled from this list''
This List of places in Dumfries and Galloway is a list of links for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, hill fort, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir ...
References
External links
* https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/69406
Transcriptions and photographs of Gravestones in Dundrennan Abbey Grounds
Villages in Dumfries and Galloway
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