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Kippford (Scaur)
Dumfries and GallowayKippford
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Also known as Scaur, the village of Kippford lies at the mouth of the Urr Water on the Solway coast of Dumfries and Galloway, 5 miles (8 km) south of Dalbeattie. Now a resort village and yachting centre, it was once a centre of shipbuilding and granite quarrying. Kippford has a Village Hall (1995), a Life-Boat Station (1966) but no church, school or post office (the latter closing in 2002).
A Millennium Monument was unveiled opposite the Solway Yacht Club in 2000.
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