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The demography of Scotland includes all aspects of population, past and present, in the area that is now Scotland. Scotland had a population of 5,463,300 in 2019. The population growth rate in 2011 was estimated as 0.6% per annum according to the 2011 GROS Annual Review. [1] Covering an area of 78,782 square kilometres (30,418 sq mi), Scotland ...
Dumfries (/ d ʌ m ˈ f r iː s / ⓘ dum-FREESS; Scots: Dumfries; from Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Phris [ˌt̪un ˈfɾʲiʃ]) is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, 25 miles (40 km) from the Anglo-Scottish border.
An elected county council was established for each county in 1890 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889. The three county councils were abolished in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, which established a two-tier structure of local government across Scotland comprising upper-tier regions and lower-tier districts. A ...
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.
Southerness (/sʌðə'nɛs/; Scots: Satterness) is a small, compact coastal village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Southerness is located approximately 2 mi (3.2 km) south of the A710 between Caulkerbush and Kirkbean. The town today is mainly a tourist village and has for many years had a large number of static caravans, some private and ...
The DG postcode area, also known as the Dumfries and Galloway postcode area, [2] is a group of fifteen postcode districts in south-west Scotland, within fourteen post towns. These cover most of Dumfries and Galloway, including Dumfries , Annan , Canonbie , Castle Douglas , Dalbeattie , Gretna , Kirkcudbright , Langholm , Lockerbie , Moffat ...
The local government areas of Scotland were redefined by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and redefined again by the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994. The 1973 Act created a system of nine two-tier regions and three islands areas , and this system completely replaced local government counties and burghs in 1975. [ 1 ]
Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of ... (Scotland) Act 1973. Two lower-tier district councils were created from ... The population in 1891 was 74,245 ...