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New Luce
New Luce is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It lies in the traditional county of Wigtownshire, and is about in length and in breath, being the upper part of the original Glenluce Parish.〔http://www.dgcommunity.net/communitycouncil/default.aspx?id=56〕 New Luce is shown as a civil parish on John Ainslie's county map of 1782.
New Luce is also the principal village within the parish. The coast to coast walk, the Southern Upland Way, passes close to the village.〔http://www.newlucehistory.co.uk/〕 The Covenanter Alexander Peden spent time preaching in the village.
==Places of interest==
A viaduct carried the Stranraer-Glasgow railway over the Main Water of Luce. Down the river from the viaduct is a pool called Bloody Wheel where the Hays of Castle of Park, near Glenluce (Old Luce), and the Linns of Larg in the adjoining parish of Inch, were said to have had a violent encounter centuries ago.〔National Archives of Scotland GD72/142(i). 13 May 1662. Bond by Sir Thomas HAY, younger of (Castle of) Park, and William LIN of Large, as cautioners to William GORDON of Craiglaw〕〔National Archives of Scotland. GD135/798, 800, 804, 955. c.1687〕
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