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Gretna means "(place at the) gravelly hill", from Old English greot "grit" (in the dative form greoten (which is where the -n comes from) and hoh "hill-spur".. The Lochmaben Stone is a megalith standing in a field, nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the Sark mouth on the Solway Firth, three hundred yards or so above high water mark on the farm of Old Graitney.
Historically Gretna Green was on the Glasgow-Carlisle road, a significant early toll road between England and Scotland. Gretna Green railway station serves both Gretna Green and Gretna. [1] The Quintinshill rail disaster, the worst rail crash in British history, in which over 220 died, occurred near Gretna Green in 1915.
"The Gretna Garrison". Chemistry in Britain. 32 (3). London: Royal Society of Chemistry: 37– 41. Ritchie, E. (1988). The Gretna Girls. Wigtown: Wigtown District Museum Service. Routledge, Gordon L. (1999). Gretna's Secret War: The Great Munitions Factory at Dornock, Eastriggs, Gretna and Longtown and an Account of the Quintinshill Railway ...
The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.It resulted in the deaths of over 200 people and remains the worst rail disaster in British history.
Gretna Football Club was a Scottish professional football club based in the town of Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway, close to the border between England and Scotland, that last competed in the Scottish Premier League, the then top flight of Scottish football.
Gretna F.C., a now defunct Scottish football club Gretna F.C. 2008 , a Scottish football club founded by the fans of the above Gretna (skipper) , a genus of butterflies in the grass skipper family
This is a list of listed buildings in the parish of Gretna in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) List Name Location Date Listed Grid Ref. Geo-coordinates Notes LB Number Image Gretna Village, 148-171 Central Avenue (Inclusive Nos) 54°59′46″N 3°04 ...
The poem's subject was the alleged sale of Scotland in the Anglo-Scottish Treaty of Union. [4] The most famous town on the Sark is Gretna Green, best known for its wedding industry. [5] The A74(M) motorway passes over it. The area around the Sark was notoriously marshy and sandy, as much of the coast of the north west Irish Sea is.