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Place name County Entry Source Annan Dumfries Shire Annan, and is in all 49 miles long. Its chief tributaries are the Evan, Moffat, Kinnel, Dryfe, Milk, Mein, and Wamphray. Bartholomew Annan Dumfries Shire Wamphray Water, soon ter whose confluence the Annan becomes exceedingly meandering, though still bearing southward to within 1 mile of Lochmaben Groome Applegarth Dumfries Shire Wamphray, NE and E by Hutton, S by Dryfesdale, and W by Lochmaben and Johnstone. From N to S its greatest Groome Biddes or Bidhouse Burn Lanarkshire Wamphray, led by William Johnstone of Kirkhill. An old ballad says: Then out spoke Willie of the Kirkhin, Of fighting Groome Dubbs Cauldron Dumfries Shire Dubbs Cauldron , cascade on Wamphray Water, Wamphray par., Dumfries-shire. Bartholomew Dubbs Cauldron Dumfries Shire Dubbs Cauldron, a pretty cascade on Wamphray Water, in Wamphray parish, NE Dumfriesshire. Groome Dumfriesshire Dumfries Shire Wamphray, the Dryfe, the Milk, and the Mein. The chief which enter the Esk are, from the W, the Black Groome Gateside Dumfries Shire Gateside , hamlet, on river Annan, Dumfries-shire, in par. and ½ mile S. of Wamphray sta. Bartholomew Girth-head Dumfries Shire Girth-head , seat, on river Annan, in par. and 1½ mile S. of Wamphray sta., Dumfries-shire. Bartholomew Girthhead Dumfries Shire mansion, in Wamphray parish, Dumfriesshire, on the left bank of the Annan, 1½ mile S by W of Wamphray station. Groome Hutton and Corrie Dumfries Shire Wamphray, it has an utmost length from N by W to S by E of 14 miles, an utmost width Groome Johnstone Dumfries Shire Wamphray and Applegarth, S by Lochmaben, and SW and W by Kirkmichael. Its utmost length, from N to S, is 7½ miles Groome Kirkpatrick-Juxta Dumfries Shire Wamphray, S by Johnstone and Kirkmichael, SW by Closeburn, and W and NW by Crawford in Lanarkshire. Its utmost length Groome Loch Fell Dumfries Shire Wamphray, and Moffat parishes, 5 3 / 8 miles E of Moffat town. One of the Hartfell group, it rises to an altitude Groome Lochmaben Dumfries Shire Wamphray. Pop. (1871) 16,177, (1881) 16, 126, of whom 3876 were communicants of the Church of Scotland in 1878. The Free Groome Moffat Dumfries Shire
LanarkshireWamphray, SW by Kirkpatrick-Juxta, and W and NW by Crawford in Lanarkshire. Its utmost length, from ENE to WSW, is 14¾ miles Groome Newton Dumfries Shire Newton , school, Wamphray par., Dumfriesshire. Bartholomew Wamphray Dumfries Shire Wamphray U.P. church; and Johnstone and Wamphray Free church stands just across the Annan in Johnstone parish. Wamphray public and Newton Groome Wamphray Dumfries Shire Wamphray , par. and ry. sta., Dumfriesshire, on river Annan and Wamphray Water - par., 13,133 ac., pop. 455; ry. sta., 5 miles Bartholomew
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