Dundrennan (

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: ''Dun Droighnein'') is a village

Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway (; ) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands. It is bordered by East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, and South Lanarkshire to the north; Scottish Borders to the no ...

, Scotland, about east of

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. Its population is around 230. Dundrennan is located in the

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of Rerrick in the historic county of

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. 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 Abbe ...

, a 12th-century

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monastery. The weapons testing establishment

Dundrennan Range Dundrennan Range is a weapons testing range on the Solway Firth, near Kirkcudbright in Dumfries and Galloway, in south west Scotland, it is part of the Ministry of Defence's Kirkcudbright Training Area. History Previously farming land, the s ...

is also nearby. From 2001 until 2015 the Wickerman music festival was held on the nearby farm of East Kirkcarswell. Dundrennan is a

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. *

Climate

Dundrennan has an

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(

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: ''Cfb'').

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 {{DumfriesGalloway-geo-stub

Dundrennan Air Crash

Climate

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