SPW034395 SCOTLAND (1930). Kirkcowan, general view, showing Main Street and Newton Stewart Road. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-east.

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Title [SPW034395] Kirkcowan, general view, showing Main Street and Newton Stewart Road. An oblique aerial photograph taken facing north-east.
Reference SPW034395
Date 1930
Link Canmore Collection item 1257121
Place name
Parish KIRKCOWAN
District WIGTOWN
Country SCOTLAND
Easting / Northing 232883, 560788
Longitude / Latitude -4.6074524874914, 54.913702714362
National Grid Reference NX329608

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Kirkcowan is a single street village in Dumfries and Galloway.



Most of the dwellings are traditional, low, single storey cottages and this photo from 1930 shows that they have tiled or slated rooves. An earlier photograph from 1860 (http://www.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-000-100-041-C) shows that once these had all been thatched with straw or heather.

Brian Wilkinson
Tuesday 17th of September 2013 01:13:23 PM