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    Castle Douglas (Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Dhùghlais) is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the lieutenancy area of Kirkcudbrightshire...
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    Douglas Castle was a stronghold of the Douglas (later Douglas-Home) family from medieval times to the 20th century. The first castle, erected in the 13th...
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    name. The original caput of the family was Douglas Castle in Lanarkshire. The Kirk of St Bride at Douglas, along with Melrose Abbey and the Abbey of...
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    county is named in honor of U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas. The county seat is Castle Rock. Douglas County is part of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood metropolitan...
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    kinsman Thomas Dickson, son of Earl Richard Keith and Castellan of Douglas Castle, Douglas and his small troop were hidden until the morning of Palm Sunday...
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    The Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway was a railway in Galloway in the south west of Scotland which linked Castle Douglas in Kirkcudbrightshire to Dumfries...
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    Castle Rock is a home rule town that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Douglas County, Colorado, United States. The town population...
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    Castle Douglas Hospital is a health facility in Academy Street, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway...
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    to the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway at Castle Douglas. It opened in 1864, and closed in 1965. The Beeching cuts cut off the Castle Douglas and Dumfries...
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    through the hills called the Glenkens which carries the A713 road from Castle Douglas to Ayr. The Galloway Hills lie to the west of this route through the...
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    Threave Castle is situated on an island in the River Dee, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) west of Castle Douglas in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire...
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  • Britain . The Douglas of Castle Douglas, Kirkudbright Baronetcy was created 17 July 1801 in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Douglas of Glenbervie...
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  • Chris Fulton (category People from Castle Douglas)
    Fulton (born 27 November 1988) is a Scottish actor. Fulton grew up in Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway. His parents David and Pauline run the King's...
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  • Douglas, South Lanarkshire Douglas Castle, South Lanarkshire Douglas Water, South Lanarkshire Glen Douglas, Argyll and Bute Douglas, Dundee Douglas,...
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    1371–1390) granted the castle to Sir Henry Douglas, the husband of his niece Marjory. Beginning in the 14th century, the castle served as a state prison...
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    Castle Douglas railway station served the town of Castle Douglas, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in the administrative area of Dumfries and...
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    Fawdon, imprisoned Longleg at Harbottle Castle and made off with some £100 sterling of goods. William Douglas was injured in the fight. Ita quod fere...
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  • Douglas Rovers F.C. was an association football club from Castle Douglas in Dumfriesshire. The first reported matches for the club after from 1883. After...
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  • Castle Douglas St Andrew Street railway station served the town of Castle Douglas, in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in the administrative...
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    his niece, Karin Swann. Wilkinson opened its first Scottish outlet in Castle Douglas in January 2009. In 2012, Wilkinson began rebranding its stores as Wilko...
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    Gelston Castle, located near Castle Douglas in Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, was built by Sir William Douglas of Castle Douglas, who...
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    Castle Douglas and Crocketford is one of the thirteen wards used to elect members of the Dumfries and Galloway Council. It elects three Councillors. 2017...
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    railway branch line linking Kirkcudbright to the Castle Douglas and Dumfries Railway at Castle Douglas. It opened in 1864, and closed in 1965. By 1861...
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  • creature was first incorrectly documented in 1845 by Joseph Train of Castle Douglas, Galloway, Scotland, in his An Historical and Statistical Account of...
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    Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (8 October 1515 – 7 March 1578), was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband...
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    William Douglas, 1st Baronet (died 1809) was a Scottish landowner and industrialist, best known for founding the planned town of Castle Douglas in the...
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    the south-east and south-west corners. The castle was described by Scottish archaeologist William Douglas Simpson as one of the "foremost secular structures...
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  • Douglas (c. 1220–c. 1274), Scoto-Norman nobleman William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas (died c. 1298), Scottish soldier and governor of Berwick Castle William...
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  • and Wigtownshire Joint Committee. The Portpatrick Railway connected Castle Douglas and Portpatrick, opened in 1861 and 1862 and was intended to revive...
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    Earl's claim, the castle passed outright into the Douglas family and was inherited by George Douglas, illegitimate son of the Earl of Douglas, who also inherited...
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