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Munches, a handsome modern mansion of granite, with finely-wooded grounds, in Buittle parish, Kirkcudbrightshire, near the right bank of Urr Water, 2 miles S of Dalbeattie. Its owner, Wellwood Herries Maxwell, Esq. (b. 1817; suc. 1858), from 1868 to 1874 was Liberal M.P. for the Stewartry, in which he holds 4597 acres, valued at £5149 per annum.Ord. Sur., sh. 5, 1857.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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