Dalbeattie travel guide

Dalbeattie (Gaelic: Dail Bheithe, "Valley of the Birch Trees") is a town in Dumfries and Galloway (formerly Kirkcudbrightshire), Scotland.
Dalbeattie is situated in a wooded valley on the Urr Water five miles east of Castle Douglas. It is at the junction of the A710 and A711 roads and the A745 terminates a mile to the west at Buittle Bridge.
Formerly granite quarrying was an important part of its economy, and the quarry still exists, but work has been consigned to the history books. Dalbeattie granite was used to build parts of Windsor Castle.
Dalbeattie is also famous for being the hometown of William McMaster Murdoch, the first officer of the RMS Titanic who died when the ship sank in 1912.
Dalbeattie grew from a small Clachan situated around the ford in the burn, at the bottom of Water Street where the stepping stones used to be. It was on the main coastal road through from New Abbey to Dundrennan, as it wound its way up to the ford on the River Urr, near to the Mote of Urr. The fast flowing burn had already become the site of at least one Mill by 1600, influential local landowners, the Maxwell’s of Munches and the Riddick’s of Little and Miekle Dalbeattie Farms, and the close proximity to the Castles of Edingham and Buittle, also influenced the development of Dalbeattie. (...) more....

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