Dumfries & Galloway (Dùn Phris agus Gall-Ghaidhealaibh around Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council areas inside Scotland. Northwards it borders onto South Ayrshire, East Ayrshire and South Lanarkshire; in the east the Borders; and south a county of Cumbria in England. It lies in the north of the Solway Firth and to the east of the Irish Sea.

Dumfries & Galloway covers a traditional counties of Wigtownshire (in the west), Kirkcudbrightshire (centre) and Dumfriesshire (in the east). Together Kirkcudbrightshire & Wigtownshire come known as Galloway.

A Galloway section of a vicinity is manufactured higher of a Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, the Machars & the Rhins. A Dumfries a share includes a Inner Solway & a county of Dumfriesshire.

It was created inside 1975 as a two-tier vicinity sustaining a territorial dominion Annandale and Eskdale, Nithsdale, Stewartry, and Wigtown. These territory were abolished within 1996, & so Dumfries and Galloway became the unitary authority.

A area is easily-known for its numerous artists and writers. These are a scene of Dorothy Sayers's novel Five Red Herrings (1931).

A [http://www.dumfriesandgalloway.police.uk/ Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary] is the little constabulary in the United Kingdom. From either December 21, 1988 until November 1991, it presided over Britain's largest criminal inquiry, while it led a investigation into a bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which resulted in criminal indictments against 2 Libyan nationals, and a conviction of 1.

Towns and villages
Ae, Annan Beattock Caerlaverock, Cairnryan, Carsphairn, Castle Douglas, Castle Kennedy, Creetown Dalbeattie, Dalton, Drumlanrig, Drummore, Dumfries Ecclefechan, Eskdalemuir Gatehouse of Fleet, Glenluce, Gretna Green Kirkcolm, Kirkcudbright Langholm, Lochmaben, Lockerbie Millhousebridge, Moffat, Moniaive, Mull of Galloway New Abbey, New Galloway, New Luce, Newton Stewart Portpatrick Ruthwell Sanquhar, St. John's Town of Dalry, Stranraer Thornhill Wanlockhead, Whithorn, Wigtown

Places of interest
Caerlaverock Castle - Historic Scotland Caerlaverock NNR - National Nature Reserve Corsewall Lighthouse, privately owned Galloway Forest Park, Forestry Commission Southern Upland Way - long distance footpath Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey WWT Caerlaverock - a reserve of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust

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