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MAXWELLTOWN

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAXWELLTOWN , a See also:

burgh of See also:barony and See also:police burgh of See also:Kirkcudbrightshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901), 5796. It lies on the Nith, opposite to See also:Dumfries, with which it is connected by three See also:bridges, being See also:united with it for See also:parliamentary purposes. It has a station on the See also:Glasgow & See also:South-Western See also:line from Dumfries to See also:Kirkcudbright. Its public buildings include a See also:court-See also:house, the See also:prison for the south-See also:west of Scotland, and an See also:observatory and museum, housed in a disused See also:windmill. The See also:chief manufactures are woollens and See also:hosiery, besides dyeworks and 'sawmills. It was a See also:hamlet known as See also:Bridgend up till 18ro, in which See also:year it was erected into a burgh of barony under its See also:present name. To the See also:north-west lies the See also:parish of Terregles, said to be a corruption of Tir-eglwys (terra See also:ecclesia, that is, " See also:Kirk See also:land "). The parish contains the beautiful ruin of Lincluden See also:Abbey (see DUMFRIES), and Terregles House, once the seat of See also:William See also:Maxwell, last See also:earl of See also:Nithsdale. In the parish of Lochrutton, a few See also:miles south-west of Maxwelltown, there is a See also:good example of a See also:stone circle, the " Seven See also:Grey Sisters," and an old See also:peel-See also:tower in the Mains of Hills.

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