Dumfries

Dumfries is a market town and former royal burgh in the Scottish county of Dumfries and Galloway. It is situated at the mouth of the River Nith, in the Southern Uplands, close to the English Solway Firth — an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This was the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire, and has had a long, prominent, and bloody history as a frontier town since the Roman occupation, as the location where Edward I of England signed orders directing his forces across Scotland to submit to a peace treaty, in accordance with the wishes of Pope Boniface VII; where Robert the Bruce killed his English rival to become King of Scots, and began his campaign to liberate Scotland from English rule; and where William Wallace was joined by the townsfolk, when he pursued the English forces across the Solway Firth.

One of the more obvious, and appreciated landmarks of the town is the Devorgilla Bridge, which was the first bridge over the Nith, built in 1432, and named after the mother of King John Balliol, who founded Balliol College, of Oxford University. It is one if Scotland's oldest standing bridges. The ruins of Lincluden Abbey are located on the opposite bank of the Nith, about a mile upstream. The Abbey was founded in around 1160 on the site of the bailey of an early Lincluden Castle. Other sites of interest in the town include the Globe Inn, the favourite drinking place of Robert Burns, along with Robert Burns' house at 24 Burns Street, near the High Street, and his resting place at St Michael's Churchyard.

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