Brow, Dumfries and Galloway back a well made barbed and tanged flint arrow-head was discovered near the Brow Well and was later mounted as a brooch. Brow, Dumfries and Galloway Brow is a hamlet on the B725 lying around 3 km from Ruthwell in the Parish of that name on the Solway Firth between Dumfries and Annan in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The Raffles Burn runs through the site, marked on maps as the Brow Burn it flows into the Solway Firth at Lochar Bay. The name may refer to the situation of the site that 'faces or confronts' the Lochar Water and the
Parton, Dumfries and Galloway (1864–1946) of the Thwaites Brewery family from Blackburn, who lived at nearby Barwhillanty. Parton railway station was part of the Portpatrick line, but closed in 1965. Parton, Dumfries and Galloway Parton is a village situated on the banks of the River Dee in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Prominent mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell lived at the nearby Glenlair House. He was famous for developing formulae governing electricity and magnetism as well as the Maxwell distribution in the kinetic theory of gases. Maxwell's grave lies in the family burial enclosure in the churchyard of Parton Kirk