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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.
The A74 was the original route from Glasgow to Carlisle, where it met the A7 in Carlisle city centre and the A6 south to London. Starting in the 1930s, the single-carriageway road between Gretna and Glasgow was progressively upgraded to dual carriageway, being completed in the early 1970s with the completion of the Gretna bypass.
Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, close to the town of Gretna, [1] on the Scottish side of the English-Scottish border. It is accessed from the A74(M) motorway . [ 1 ]
Gretna Green railway station, a railway station in Gretna Green, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland; Gretna railway station (Border Union Railway), a former station; Gretna railway station (Caledonian Railway), a former station
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 ...
Currently the A74 is a suburban route of local importance that links the Gorbals and Broomhouse districts of Glasgow, via neighbourhoods in the city's East End. The road was infamous for its allegedly high accident rate, being dubbed a "killer road", which exacerbated the need to provide an alternative motorway route.
Old section of A75 east of Carrutherstown, close to Braehill Oak Wood, in 2007. It is now a bypassed local road. The mostly single-carriageway road has been re-aligned, re-routed and bypasses most towns in recognition of the heavy freight traffic it carries between the A74(M)/M6 and the ferry ports for Northern Ireland at Cairnryan.
A6071 west to A74 – Gretna: To A74 signed northbound only; northern terminus of A6071 concurrency: Cumbria county— Dumfries and Galloway council boundary 11.9: 19.2: England—Scotland boundary: Dumfries and Galloway: No major junctions: Scottish Borders: Hawick: 43.0: 69.2: A698 north-east (Mart Street) / Mansfield Road – Jedburgh, Kelso ...