Penpont
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| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] NX8494] |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Thornhill |
| Postcode district | DG3 |
| Dialling code | 01848 |
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| Police | Scotland |
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Penpont is a village about 2 miles (3 km) west of Thornhill in Dumfriesshire, in the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland. It is near the confluence of the Shinnel Water and Scaur Water rivers in the foothills of the Southern Uplands. It has a population of about 400 people.[citation needed]
Archaeology
There are several archaeological sites nearby, including Late Bronze Age hill forts on Tynron Doon[1] and Grennan Hill and a long cairn at Capenoch Loch[2] dating from the 2nd or 3rd century.
History
The toponym Penpont means "head of [the] bridge" or "bridge-end" in the Cumbric language once spoken in the region.[3]
The A702 road passes through Penpont. West of Thornhill it crosses the River Nith on a two-arched stone bridge in Penpont parish. It was built in the 1760s after the presbytery of Penpont raised £680 toward the cost. Work started about 1774, but in 1776 the bridge collapsed. The bridge was completed in 1778 and strengthened in 1930–31. It is a Category A listed building.[4]
Penpont's Church of Scotland parish church is a Gothic Revival building completed in 1867. It is a Category B listed building.[5] It has an Art Nouveau Communion table made in 1923.[citation needed]
Penpont's war memorial was made by Glasgow sculptor William Kellock Brown and installed in 1920. It is a bronze statue of an infantryman, with his rifle pointing downwards, his hands resting on the butt and his head slightly bowed.
Notable people
- Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone FRSE FZS (1877-1949) civil servant and ornithologist, Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries, lived at Capenoch House in Penpont.[6]
- Joseph Thomson (1858–95), the geologist and explorer after whom Thomson's Gazelle is named, was born in Penpont.
- The sculptor Andy Goldsworthy[7] has lived in the village since 1986 and has a workshop there. Many of his works are in the surrounding countryside, including a pinecone-shaped sculpture at Stepends Farm made to celebrate the year 2000. Each year Penpont holds a week-long festival called the Penpont Gala,[8] beginning in the first week of July.
- Kirkpatrick MacMillan, generally credited with the invention of the pedal driven bicycle, was born and died in Keir, one mile south of Penpont.[9]
- Leo Kearse Comedian and broadcaster
- Joanna Lumley owns a cottage near the village.
- Hugh McMillan (poet) born 1955
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Views around the top of Tynron Doon". Cairnsmore of Carsphairn and the Scaur Hills. South West Scotland Hill Walking Routes. Archived from the original on 14 August 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Capenoch Loch (Cairn(s))". The Modern Antiquarian. Julian Cope.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Watson, William J (1925). "The Celts (British and Gael) in Dumfriesshire and Galloway" (PDF). Transactions and Journal of Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society. Third Series. XI: 147. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2014.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Andy Goldsworthy Archive". Andy Goldsworthy Digital Catalogue.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Penpont Gala Week 2008". Archived from the original on 20 August 2008.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Famous People of Penpont". Penpont Heritage. Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
External links
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