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Dumfries, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 4937
Housing Units (2000): 1699
Land area (2000): 1.600035 sq. miles (4.144071 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.600035 sq. miles (4.144071 sq. km)
FIPS code: 23760
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.567853 N, 77.324591 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 22026
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Dumfries

Dumfries ( ; possibly from ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth. Dumfries was a civil parish and became the county town of the former county of Dumfriesshire. Dumfries is nicknamed Queen of the South. People from Dumfries are known colloquially as Doonhamers.

Dumfries (disambiguation)

Dumfries is a Scottish town.

Dumfries may also refer to:

  • Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency) (1708–1918)
  • Dumfriesshire (UK Parliament constituency) (1708–2005), known from 1950 to 2005 as Dumfries
  • Dumfries, Virginia
Dumfries (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Dumfries was a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood). It elected one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It was also one of nine constituencies in the South of Scotland electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

From the Scottish Parliament election, 2011, the Dumfries constituency was abolished, with the city being divided between two new constituencies; Dumfriesshire, and Galloway and West Dumfries.

Dumfries (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Dumfries was a royal burgh that returned one commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland and to the Convention of Estates.

After the Acts of Union 1707, Dumfries, Annan, Kirkcudbright, Lochmaben and Sanquhar formed the Dumfries district of burghs, returning one member between them to the House of Commons of Great Britain.

Usage examples of "dumfries".

I shall, for certain, leave town in a week for Ayrshire, and from that to Dumfries, but there my hopes are slender.

The more rigid presbyterians, known by the name of Cameronians, chose officers, formed themselves into regiments, provided horses, arms, and ammunition, and marching to Dumfries, burned the articles of union at the Market-cross, justifying their conduct in a public declaration.

Tell her that I wrote to her from Glasgow, from Kilmarnock, from Mauchline, and yesterday from Cumnock as I returned from Dumfries.

Dumfries paper states that on the night of Sunday, the 10th instant, twenty-four hours before the fatal deed was perpetrated, a report was brought to Bude Kirk, two miles from Annan, that Mr.

Our time spent in Scotland gave me great hope that his childhood memories of Dumfries, his obvious love of all things Scottish, from the skirl of bagpipes to his hard-to-believe love of that dreadful dish haggis, might cause him to announce any day after our return to London that we were sailing for Savannah and home.

Mama's cherished heirloom clock, said to have stood over two hundred years ago in the great hall of Caerlaverock, the Maxwell family castle near Dumfries, Scotland, was striking eight by the time James and William Browne announced that they were retiring to their rooms to read.

Don't forget I grew up alongside Caerlaverock Castle outside of Dumfries.

No more ancient Celtic frays between us, and tomorrow night we'll be side by side in another bed in good old Dumfries, just across the River Nith from Caerlaverock Castle.

It was he who was taking her now, in the comfortable two-wheeler, nearer and nearer to the ancient ruins of Caerlaverock, a place grown familiar to him from his Dumfries boyhood, the symbol of what he now knew had always been one of Anne's brightest, most cherished dreams.

He had already told her that while most believed the ancient Celtic word caer means "fort," there were also Dumfries natives who swore that Caerlaverock truly means "lark's nest.