Glencaple

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Glencaple, a seaport village in Caerlaverock parish, Dumfriesshire, on the left bank of the Nith, 5 miles S by E of Dumfries, under which it has a post office. Founded in 1747, it presents a tidy and cheerful appearance, commands a charming view across the Nith to Criffel, and serves in a small way as a sea-bathing quarter to families of the town and neighbourhood of Dumfries. Its shipbuilding is all but quite extinct ; and, ranking as a sub-port of Dumfries, it has scarcely any trade of its own, but serves for such vessels to discharge their cargoes as are unable to sail up to the burgh. At it are two inns, a tolerably good quay, a police station, a school, and a Free church.—Ord. Sur., sh. 6, 1863.

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