Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wanlockhead

Wanlockhead, quoad sacra par. and mining vil., Sanquhar par., Dumfriesshire - quoad sacra par., pop. 854; vil., at border with Lanarkshire, on Wanlock Water, 1½ mile SW. of Leadhills and 8½ NE. of Sanquhar, pop. 788; P.O.; the lead mines were opened about 1680.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "quoad sacra parish and mining village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dumfries Shire ScoCnty
Place: Wanlockhead

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