Gretna

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Gretna

Total population

3,147

Coordinates55.00°, -3.07°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Gretna is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, originally part of the historic county of Dumfriesshire. It is located close to the A74(M) on the border of Scotland and England and near the mouths of the rivers Esk and Sark. Gretna was built from 1915 and is about 1km south of the older village Gretna Green.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Annie Lorrain Smith

British mycologist and lichenologist (1854-1937)

Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston

English politician

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Pat Heywood

British actress (1931–2024)

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Simon Greenall

British actor

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John Francis Armstrong

British born New Zealand botanist (1820-1902)

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Thomas Moody

British Colonial office agent and expert

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Norman William McLachlan

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James Armstrong

engineer 1926-2010

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R. L. Bell

Peerage person ID=667899

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Joseph Burnett

Soldier of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Gretna

Marriages at Gretna Hall, 1829-Ap. 30, 1855

Gretna (Scotland : Parish) · 1949

Gretna Green

Olga Sinclair · 1990

Gretna Green, or, Matrimony in Scotland

1833

Chronicles of Gretna Green

Peter Orlando Hutchinson · 1844

Gretna Green, or Matrimony in Scotland

1833

Gretna and Eastriggs

Ordnance Survey · 1982

Carlisle and Solway Firth, Gretna Green

Ordnance Survey · 1997

Carlisle, Brampton, Longtown and Gretna Green

Ordnance Survey · 2000

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers