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Dunscore is a small village which lies northwest of Dumfries on the B729, in Dumfriesshire, in the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland. The village of about 150 people, has a pub, a post office and a tea room.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Village of Dunscore )〕 The village hosts a gala event every August.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Dunscore Village Gala )〕 It is the birthplace of the Church of Scotland missionary Jane Haining, one of only ten Holocaust victims from Scotland. Dunscore railway station opened in 1905, closed to passengers in 1943 and to goods in 1949. The station was on the Cairn Valley Railway which ran to Moniaive from Dumfries. See the Civil Parish Map of Dumfriesshire, for the Civil Parish of Dunscore at : http://maps.nls.uk/atlas/thomson/555.html Civil Parish Historical Tax Rolls for the Civil Parish of Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, (Volumes 1-5) refer : http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital_volumes/book.php?book_id=555&place_id=10&p_name=Dumfriesshire Craigenputtock Estate is within the Civil Parish of Dunscore. ==Etymology== The name Dunscore is of Cumbric origin, formed of the elements ''dīn'' 'fort' and '' *ïsgor'' 'fortification, rampart'. William J. Watson proposes the meaning "fort of the bulwark or rampart". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dunscore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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