Southerness, a village in Kirkbean parish, SE Kirkcudbrightshire, at Southerness Point, on the Solway Firth, 10 miles SE of Dalbeattie, and 16 S of Dumfries. It was built some time after the middle of last century by Oswald of Auchencruive near Ayr, in the expectation of its becoming a mining-village and depôt for coal; but the desired mineral having been vainly searched for in the neighbourhood, the village became transmuted into a sea-bathing retreat. Southerness Point screens the W side of the entrance of the estuary of the Nith, and is crowned by a disused lighthouse.Ord. Sur., sh. 6, 1863.
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