Rockcliffe, Dumfries and Galloway Rockcliffe, Dumfries and Galloway Rockcliffe is a small, coastal village in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, with a view of Rough Island, Hestan Island, the Solway Firth and sometimes the Cumbrian coast. Rockcliffe lies on the eastern side of the River Urr estuary, and gives access to Rough Island by way of both firm mud exposed at low tide and a natural, tidal causeway. Hestan Island can be safely reached on foot from Rockcliffe if you are prepared to ford the knee-deep, lower reaches of the River Urr at low tide: it is a 2-mile walk across firm, sandy
Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway the Rev Patrick Borrowman by James Paterson (1900). Glencairn, Dumfries and Galloway Glencairn is an ecclesiastical and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. According to John Bartholomew's 1887 "Gazetteer of the British Isles", the parish in west Dumfriesshire covered . The parish included the village of Moniaive, and lay southwest of Thornhill station. In 1887 the parish had a population of 1,737. As of 2011, the community council, including the villages of Kirkland and Moniaive, had a population of about 945. The community council stretches along the valley formed by Dalwhat Water and then the Cairn Water. Moniaive is