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Dunscore is a small village which lies northwest of Dumfries on the B729, in Dumfriesshire, in the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland.
The village of about 150 people, has a pub, a post office and a tea room. The village hosts a gala event every August.
It is the birthplace of the Church of Scotland missionary Jane Haining, one of only ten Holocaust victims from Scotland.
Dunscore railway station opened in 1905, closed to passengers in 1943 and to goods in 1949. The station was on the Cairn Valley Railway which ran to Moniaive from Dumfries.
See the Civil Parish Map of Dumfriesshire, for the Civil Parish of Dunscore at : http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/thomson/555.html
Civil Parish Historical Tax Rolls for the Civil Parish of Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, (Volumes 1-5) refer : http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital_volumes/book.php?book_id=555&place_id=10&p_name=Dumfriesshire
Craigenputtock Estate is within the Civil Parish of Dunscore.