Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Sandhead

Sandhead, a village in Stoneykirk parish, Wigtownshire, on Luce Bay, 7 miles S by E of Stranraer. It has a post and telegraph office, an inn, a public school, and a natural harbour consisting of a small bay, and affording anchorage for lime and coal sloops.—Ord. Sur., sh. 3, 1856.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Stoneykirk ScoP       Wigtownshire ScoCnty

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