In 1882-4, Frances Groome's Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland described Bargrennan like this:
Bargrennan, a post office hamlet in Minnigaff parish, W Kirkcudbrightshire, and a quoad sacra parish partly also in Penninghame, Wigtownshire. The hamlet lies on the Cree's left bank, 9 miles N by W of its post-town Newton-Stewart; at it are the manse and the neat little church (1839; stipend, £120). ...
Two public schools, Bargrennan and Knowe, with respective accommodation for 60 and 48 children, had (1879) an average attendance of 21 and 29, and grants of £37,7s. 6d. and £38,2s. Pop. of q. s. parish, in the presbytery of Wigtown and synod of Galloway, (1871) 428, of whom 228 were in Penninghame, (1881) 366.
Bargrennan through time
Bargrennan is now part of Dumfries and Galloway district. Click here for graphs and data of how Dumfries and Galloway has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Bargrennan itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Bargrennan, in Dumfries and Galloway and Kirkcudbrightshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/22350
Date accessed: 19th April 2024
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