| Gretna | |
| Scottish Gaelic: Greatna | |
  Gretna shown within Scotland |
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| Population | 2705 (2001 Census) |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Council area | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Lieutenancy area | Dumfries |
| Constituent country | Scotland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GRETNA |
| Postcode district | DG16 |
| Dialling code | 01461 |
| Police | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Fire | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Ambulance | Scottish |
| European Parliament | Scotland |
| UK Parliament | Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale |
| Scottish Parliament | Dumfries |
| List of places: UK • Scotland | |
Gretna (Scottish Gaelic: Greatna) is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A nationwide Census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday 29 April 2001 The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using Latitude and Longitude For local government purposes Scotland is divided into 32 areas designated as "council areas" which are all governed by unitary authorities designated as Dumfries and Galloway ( Gaelic: Dùn Phris agus an Gall-Ghaidhealaibh, d̪̊unˈfɾʲiʃ aɡ̊əs̪ əŋ ɡ̊auɫ̪ɣəɫ̪əv is one of 32 council areas The Lieutenancy areas of Scotland are the areas used for the ceremonial lord-lieutenants, the monarch 's representatives in Scotland. Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries ( Siorrachd Dhùn Phris in Gaelic) is a Registration county of Scotland. Constituent country is a phrase used often by official institutions in contexts in which a country makes up a part of a larger entity or grouping Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. This list of sovereign states, alphabetically arranged gives an overview of States around the world with information on the extent of their Sovereignty. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located A post town is a required part of all postal addresses in the United Kingdom, and a basic unit of the postal delivery system UK Postal codes are known as postcodes. UK postcodes are Alphanumeric. The, also known as the Dumfries postcode area, is a group of postal districts around Annan, Canonbie, Castle Douglas, Dalbeattie, The UK Telephone numbering plan, also known as the National Telephone Numbering Plan, is the system used for assigning Telephone numbers in the United There are a number of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom. Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary is the Police service for the council area of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. The fire service in the United Kingdom operates under separate legislative and administrative arrangements in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway Fire and Rescue Service is the Statutory fire and rescue sercvice for the area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. SASDivmap copyjpg|right|200px]] Helimed5jpg|thumb|right|EC-135 G-SASA "Helimed 5" based at Glasgow City Heliport]] The Scottish Ambulance Service ( Scottish Scotland constitutes a single Constituency of the European Parliament. This is a list of the 646 constituencies currently represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as at the 2005 general election Dumfriesshire Clydesdale and Tweeddale is a County constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ( Westminster The Scottish Parliament ( Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba; Scots: Scottish Pairlament) is the devlolved national unicameral Dumfries is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament ( Holyrood) A Gazetteer of place names in the United Kingdom showing each place's County, Unitary authority or council area and its geographical coordinates This List of places in Scotland is a complete collection of lists of places in Scotland. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. Dumfries and Galloway ( Gaelic: Dùn Phris agus an Gall-Ghaidhealaibh, d̪̊unˈfɾʲiʃ aɡ̊əs̪ əŋ ɡ̊auɫ̪ɣəɫ̪əv is one of 32 council areas Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain.
Because they are near the Anglo-Scottish border, nearby Gretna Green and to a lesser extent Gretna, are historically linked to weddings because of the more liberal marriage laws in Scotland. The Anglo-Scottish border (or English-Scottish border) runs for 96 Miles nbsp(154 km) between Gretna Green is a small but thriving town on the west coast in the south of Scotland famous for runaway weddings
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Geography and administration
Gretna is in Dumfries and Galloway, in the south of Scotland, on the A74(M) near the border to England, and near the mouth of the River Esk. The A74(M and M74 motorways are two major Motorways in Scotland running continuously from the southern outskirts of Glasgow to the English Border at England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The River Esk is a river in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, that flows into the Solway Firth. [1] The township is distinct from the smaller nearby village of Gretna Green, famous for marriages, which borders but is a separate area from Gretna proper. To the West in Scotland are Eastriggs (about 5 miles to the West) and Annan (about 8 miles to the West), both situated on the B721 and linked to the nearby A75. Eastriggs is a village in the south of Dumfries and Galloway. The former Royal burgh of Annan ( Gaelic: Anainn) is a well-built town red Sandstone being the material mainly used The A75 is a major road in Scotland, heading west along the south coast of Scotland from its junction with the A74(M motorway at Gretna. [1]
Etymology
Gretna means "(place at the) gravelly hill", from Old English greot "grit" (in the dative form greoten (which is where the -n comes from)" and hoh "hill-spur". The name is equivalent to modern-day Gravelly Hill. Gravelly Hill is an area of Birmingham, England. Notability It is best known for its motorway junction the Gravelly Hill Interchange
History
The village was notable for HM Factory, Gretna, codenamed Moorside, a huge cordite munitions factory built nearby on the shore of Solway Firth to supply ammunition to British forces during World War I. His Majesty's Factory Gretna, or HM Factory Gretna as it was usually known was a UK government World War I Cordite factory adjacent to Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the United Kingdom from 1889 to replace Gunpowder as a military propellant Ammunition, often referred to as ammo, is a generic term derived from the French language la munition which The Solway Firth is a Firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland, between Cumbria (including the Solway Plain) and World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The factory, the biggest munitions factory ever built, stretched for nine miles from Eastriggs along the Solway coast as far as Longtown in England and two miles across. The factory took 10,000 navvies to build it, and employed 30,000 workers, mostly women. Navvy is a shorter form of navigational engineer ( USA) or navigator ( UK) and is particularly applied to describe the manual labourers working The workers mixed by hand a devil’s porridge of nitro-glycerine and guncotton into cordite paste, and loaded the extruded cordite strands into shell cases.
Gretna and Eastriggs were built to house the workforce, and many were accommodated nearby in Carlisle. Carlisle (pronounced CARLYLE(emphasis on the first syllable is a City in northern England the largest settlement in Cumbria. When 5,000 workers arrived back by train to Carlisle, one publican had 1,000 whiskies lined up! The labourers and workers had such a reputation for drunkenness that Gretna and the surrounding area became one of the few places in the UK to come under the jurisdiction of the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 (DORA) passed by Lloyd George's government. Whisky (uisge-beatha or whiskey (uisce beatha or fuisce) refers to a broad category of Alcoholic beverages that are distilled from fermented The Defence of the Realm Act ( DORA) was passed in the United Kingdom on 8 August 1914, during the early weeks of World War I. David Lloyd George 1st Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor OM, PC (17 January 1863 &ndash 26 March 1945 was a British Statesman and the only
DORA was used by Winston Churchill in 1916 to bring the liquor industry, including Public Houses (Pubs) and Breweries, under Government control over a wide area, as far as Carlisle and Maryport. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC, PC (Can ( 30 November 1874 A brewery is a dedicated building for the making of Beer, though beer can be made in the home and has been for much of beer's history Maryport is a town within the Allerdale borough of Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Cumberland. Spiritless Saturdays, buying anyone else a drink (shouting), and heaters and coolers (drinking beer and spirits in the same pub) were all banned. The pub landlords, now civil servants, were instructed to follow a disinterested management policy and not allow people to get drunk in the pubs. It was not until the early 1970s that the government enterprise was sold off. This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970.
Present day
Much of the local economy is driven by the marriage industry at Gretna Green, where, by some accounts, as many as one of every six Scottish weddings take place. NOTICE TO WOULD-BE ROMEOS ************** Some marriages take place in Gretna itself, at the Register office in the centre of the township. In England and Wales The Register Office is primarily the local office for the registration of births deaths and marriages (BD&M and for the conducting of civil marriages
Gretna was also the official home of Gretna Football Club, who played in the Scottish Premier League during the 2007-2008 season, the club playing 'home' games at Fir Park, Motherwell. Gretna Football Club was a Scottish football club that represented the town of Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway that was founded in 1946 and dissolved The Scottish Premier League, currently known as the Clydesdale Bank Premier League for sponsorship reasons and often known as the Premier League or SPL Fir Park is a football Stadium situated in Motherwell Scotland. Mounting financial problems saw the club relegated from the SPL at the end of the season, then demoted to Division 3 of the Scottish Football League. Founding members The Scottish League's first season of competition was in 1890-91. After attempts to find a buyer for the club proved fruitless, Gretna finally resigned from the SFL on June 3, 2008.
References
- Routledge, Gordon L. (1999). Gretna’s Secret War.
- devilsporridge.co.uk
- Ordnance Survey Landranger Map (number 85) - 1:50,000 scale (1. 25 inches to 1 mile). ISBN 0-319-22685-9.
- Ordnance Survey Explorer Map (number 323) - 1:25,000 scale (2. 5 inches to 1 mile)
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