Leswalt
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Leswalt, a village and a parish in the Rhinns of Galloway, Wigtownshire. The village stands 3¼ miles NW of Stranraer, under which it has a post office.Leswalt is in the presbytery of Stranraer and synod of Galloway; the living is worth £200. The plain parish church, built in 1828, contains 550 sittings. At the village, ¼ mile to the W, is its ruined ivy-clad predecessor, whose graveyard has been the Agnews' burying-place from the 14th century onward. There is a Free church of Leswalt; and Larbrex and Leswalt public schools, with respective accommodation for 55 and 200 children, had (1882) an average attendance of 33 and 86, and grants of £34,18s. and £81,15s. Valuation (1860) £6942, (1883) £9483, 14s. 4d. Pop. of civil parish (1801) 1329, (1841) 2712, (1861) 2701, (1871) 2496, (1881) 2635; of ecclesiastical parish (1881) 1292, of whom 190 belonged to Kirkcolm.
F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4)
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