Crocketford, a village on the mutual border of Urr and Kirkpatrick-Durham parishes, Kirkcudbrightshire, near Achenreoch and Milton Lochs, 9 miles WSW of Dumfries. Founded by the Buchanites in 1787, it has a post office under Dumfries, and a public school; near it is Crocketford House.
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