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Glenluce
Glenluce Main Street
Glenluce is located in Dumfries and Galloway
Glenluce
Glenluce
Location within Dumfries and Galloway
Population570 (mid-2020 est.)[1]
OS grid referenceNX197573
Civil parish
  • Old Luce
Council area
  • Dumfries and Galloway
Lieutenancy area
  • Wigtownshire
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townNEWTON STEWART
Postcode districtDG8
Dialling code01581
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
  • Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish Parliament
  • Galloway and West Dumfries
List of places
UK
Scotland
54°52′41″N 4°48′40″W / 54.878°N 4.811°W / 54.878; -4.811

Glenluce (Scottish Gaelic: Clachan Ghlinn Lus) is a small village in the parish of Old Luce in Wigtownshire, Scotland.[2]

It contains a village shop,a caravan park and a town hall, as well as the parish church.

  1. ^ "Mid-2020 Population Estimates for Settlements and Localities in Scotland". National Records of Scotland. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. ^ (Robert Chambers, William Chambers, The gazetteer of Scotland, Vol. 1, Edinburgh, 1844, p. 500, p. 748–749)

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