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Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist, most notable for (what are now songs) "Auld Lang Syne", "To a Mouse" and "Scots Wha Hae". He frequently visited Moffat for its waters and local bars. He died aged 37 in Dumfries.
Palmerston Park is the football stadium in Dumfries which hosts both The Queen Of The South and also Heston Rovers Football teams. There is a park with the same name in Southampton
The Battle of Culloden was fought close to Inverness on 16 April 1746 and was the last pitched battle on British soil. The last in England was the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685, near the village of Chedzoy
At the north end of the village of Chedington is Winyards Gap, which marks the western end of the Dorset Downs. Winyards Gap was immortalised by Thomas Hardy in his poem "A Trampwoman's Tragedy". Thomas Hardy was born on 2nd June 1840 at Stinsford, Dorset.
Stinsford has a six-a-side football team which plays in the Dorset six-a-side leagues. The team has moved on to play for football teams such as Yeovil Town F.C.
Southerness is a tourist village with camp and caravan sites and the inevitable fish and chip shop. If you want to escape there is decent bus service on the 372 route which will have you in Dumfries in less than twenty minutes - it even runs on Sundays. It is run by Houstons who are based in Lockerbie and they also run a regular service from Dumfries to Carlisle.
Sorry it is all about buses but every time I came up with a place it had been used in the recent past (Dumfries & Lockerbie)
Former England rugby union captain Steve Borthwick is a native of Carlisle. His first Premiership club was Bath FC, who play at the Recreation Ground, Bath.
In 1554 the Fitzgeralds, Earls of Desmond, began building Conna Castle on a high limestone rock overlooking the River Bride. The castle and its estate was seized by the English and passed into the hands of Sir Walter Raleigh, the English settler. He was born in Hayes Barton, East Devon in c.1552 (or 1554).