Glenluice

Glenluice
Glenluice
	Glenluce - looking down the Main Street - geograph.org.uk - 619409; Glenluce Main Street
	Glenluice Location within Dumfries an Gallowa
OS grid reference	NX197573
Ceevil pairish	Auld Luce;
Cooncil area	Dumfries an Gallowa;
Lieutenancy area	Wigtownshire;
Kintra	Scotland
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	NEWTON STEWART
Postcode destrict	DG8
Diallin code	01581
Police	Scots
Fire	Scots
Ambulance	Scots
EU Pairlament	Scotland
UK Pairlament	Dumfries an Gallowa;
Scots Pairlament	Gallowa an Wast Dumfries;
	Leet o places UK Scotland 54°52′41″N 4°48′40″W / 54.878°N 4.811°WCoordinates: 54°52′41″N 4°48′40″W / 54.878°N 4.811°W

Glenluce (Gaelic: Clachan Ghlinn Lus) is a smaw veelage in the pairish o Auld Luce in Wigtounshire, Scotland.^[1]

Near tae the village is Glenluce Abbey, a ruint Cistercian monastery biggit in 1192 by Lochlann, Lord o Galloway. Efter dissolution at the Reformation it wis abandont, wi the stanes bein uiset tae biggit nearbi hooses.

References

↑ (Robert Chambers, William Chambers, The gazetteer of Scotland, Vol. 1, Edinburgh, 1844, p. 500, p. 748–749)

[1] (Robert Chambers, William Chambers, The gazetteer of Scotland, Vol. 1, Edinburgh, 1844, p. 500, p. 748–749)

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