Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway

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Wanlockhead is a village in Dumfries and Galloway

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Wanlockhead within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Wanlockhead in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Wanlockhead, quoad sacra par. and mining vil., Sanquhar par., Dumfriesshire - quoad sacra par., pop. 854; vil., at border with Lanarkshire, on Wanlock Water, 1½ mile SW. of Leadhills and 8½ NE. of Sanquhar, pop. 788; P.O.; the lead mines were opened about 1680.

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