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Ecclefechan

village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Place Village Q1015818

Facts

8 properties

Identity

Instance of
village

Location

Country
United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of Scotland[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 55.062°, -3.264°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dumfries and Galloway, Hoddom[2][3]

Population and size

Population
+880[6]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 880 GeoNames 850 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +3
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia[7]
Historic county
Dumfriesshire[8]
OS grid reference
NY193746[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Ecclefechan fa اکلفکن fr Eaglais Fheichein ja エクルフェカン ja エックレフェチャン zh 埃克尔费亨 zh 埃克爾費亨
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
134159954
Library of Congress Authorities ID
nr2001047583
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Ecclefechan - geograph.org.uk - 387277.jpg ↗
BBC News topic ID
ck7rdppjw1mt
BBC Things ID
5a3d9dae-004c-4760-b479-3e2cb1eff797
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Dumfries_and_Galloway/Ecclefechan/
FAST ID
1326765
FactGrid item ID
thalidomide
Freebase ID
/m/011w6l
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2595331
GSS code (2011)
S20000310, S19000339
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
towns/townfirst3213
Show all 21 identifiers +9
GeoNames ID
2650280
J9U entity ID
987007499050405171
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2650280
Quora topic ID
Ecclefechan
SNARC ID
Wilhelm Kühne
TOID
4000000074553334
Vision of Britain place ID
20262
WOEID
19276
Who's on First ID
1125886183

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🔗 Connections
Country 4
United Kingdom, Kingdom of Great Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Scotland
People born here 2
Thomas Carlyle, William Harkness
Described by source 1
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
FactGrid item ID 1
thalidomide
Historic county 1
Dumfriesshire
Instance of 1
village
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Dumfries and Galloway
Located in time zone 1
UTC+00:00
SNARC ID 1
Wilhelm Kühne
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Summary

Ecclefechan is a village[1].

Related Entities

Kingdom of Great Britain Kingdom of Scotland Thomas Carlyle United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 16w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → 55.062°, -3.264°
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia
    Historic county → Dumfriesshire
    Country → United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain +1
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #43331: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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