KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE - Extra-Parochial places, 1868

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]

"LINCLUDEN, an extra parochial place in county Kirkcudbright, Scotland, 1 mile N. of Dumfries. Here are the remains of a Black nunnery founded by Uthred of Galloway in the reign of Malcolm IV., and subsequently converted into a college. At the Reformation it became the property of the Maxwells."

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