Glenlair House

Glenlair, near the village of Corsock in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, in Dumfries and Galloway, was the home of the physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879). The original structure was designed for Maxwell's father by Walter Newall; Maxwell himself oversaw the construction of an extension in the late 1860s, and further improvements were made by his heir, Andrew Wedderburn-Maxwell. A fire in 1929 left the house gutted, but a project to preserve and stabilise the remains has been undertaken by the Maxwell at Glenlair Trust.

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Kilquhanity School

Kilquhanity School was one of several free schools to have been established in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century. Others include Sands School in Devon, Summerhill in Suffolk, Sherwood School in Epsom and Kirkdale School in London. The school was founded by John Aitkenhead (1910-1998) and his wife Morag in 1940. It was closed in 1997. It was located in a classical mansion house designed by the architect Walter Newall near the town of Kirkpatrick Durham in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Galloway. The school was reopened under head teacher and former pupil Andrew Pyle, with the support of a Japanese educational organisation Kinokuni Children's Village Schools (headed by Shinichiro Hori) which now owns the premises. The first intake of 12 pupils was expected in 2013. A previous attempt to reopen in 2009 failed to attract a financially viable number of pupils. The school was visited in 1941 by the refugee Polish Jewish artist Jankel Adler who had been evacuated to Glasgow. The poet W S Graham, who had earlier helped him translate an article on Paul Klee in Glasgow was working here at the time. He spent New Year 1942 here, Christopher Murray Grieve (Hugh MacDiarmid) whose son Michael was a pupil here, was also present.

Kirkpatrick Durham

Kirkpatrick Durham (Scottish Gaelic: Cill Phàdraig) is a village and parish in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Castle Douglas.

Corsock

Corsock (Scottish Gaelic: Corsag) is a village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. It is located 8 miles (13 km) north of Castle Douglas, and the same distance east of New Galloway, on the Urr Water. Corsock House is an 18th-century country house remodelled by David Bryce in 1853. A later addition was made by Charles Stuart Still Johnston in 1910. The gardens are open to the public under the Scotland's Garden Scheme each Spring. Corsock Church was built as a Free Church in 1851-52 by local architect William McCandlish. It was extended in 1912 with a Gothic stone arch and chancel by J.A. McGregor.

Kirkcudbrightshire

Kirkcudbrightshire ( kur-KOO-bree-shər), also known as the County of Kirkcudbright or the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, is one of the historic counties of Scotland, located in the southwest of the country. Until 1975, Kirkcudbrightshire functioned as an administrative county for local government purposes. Since then, its territory has formed part of the Dumfries and Galloway council area. The name continues to be used for certain ceremonial and legal purposes: it remains a registration county for land registration, and from 1975 to 1996 a lower-tier district known as the Stewartry covered most of the historic county. The same boundaries are still used today for the lieutenancy area of the Stewartry, and the Dumfries and Galloway Council maintains a Stewartry area committee. Historically, Kirkcudbrightshire formed the eastern portion of the medieval Lordship of Galloway, which retained a measure of autonomy until its full incorporation into the Kingdom of Scotland during the 13th century. In 1369, the area east of the River Cree was placed under the jurisdiction of a steward based in Kirkcudbright, from which it derived the name "Stewartry of Kirkcudbright." The remainder of Galloway was administered by a sheriff seated in Wigtown, giving rise to the county of Wigtownshire. Kirkcudbrightshire was occasionally referred to as "East Galloway." The county is bounded to the north by Ayrshire, to the west by Wigtownshire, to the south by the Irish Sea and the Solway Firth, and to the east by Dumfriesshire. Its county town is Kirkcudbright.