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Kirkcudbright

town and former burgh in Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Place Town Q1011387

Facts

11 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, small burgh

Location

Country
United Kingdom[3]
Location
Kirkcudbrightshire[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 54.835°, -4.052°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dumfries and Galloway, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire, Stewartry[2]

Population and size

Population
+3447, +3420[8][9]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 3,447 · 3,420 GeoNames 3,350 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Local dialing code
01557[6]
Postal code
DG6[5]
More facts +3
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10][11]
Historic county
Kirkcudbrightshire[12]
OS grid reference
NX685505[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Cille Chuithbeirt en Kirkcudbright fa کرکادبرایت ja カークーブリ ru Керкубри uk Керкубрі zh 柯库布里 zh-hant 柯庫布里
🔖 Identifiers · 33
VIAF cluster ID
133801330
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n88187343
GND ID
7527256-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Ecosse2009235.JPG ↗
BBC News topic ID
cgmxjppk952t
BBC Things ID
cfe6ee80-4711-42ea-87dc-71020e83e519
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Dumfries_and_Galloway/Kirkcudbright/
Early Modern Letters Online location ID
9f560bc7-6879-42f3-8d68-dd3d0df3e86f
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Kirkcudbright
FactGrid item ID
London Borough of Ealing
Freebase ID
/m/011wj2
GB1900 ID
58059f822c66dcab3d089390
Show all 33 identifiers +21
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2600341
GSS code (2011)
S20000439, S19000477
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
towns/townfirst353
GeoNames ID
2645287
J9U entity ID
987007565065705171
MusicBrainz area ID
7538182a-cb68-4dee-af2c-2883a1f43c50
OpenWeatherMap city ID
2645287
Quora topic ID
Kirkcudbright
RKD thesaurus ID
35563
SNARC ID
Reinhard Goering
TOID
4000000074566004
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae ID
EXUTKERJMBHHXIWD6CQSY53BVY
Topic's main category
Category:Kirkcudbright
UN/LOCODE
GBKBT
Vision of Britain place ID
16336
Vision of Britain unit ID
10360511
WOEID
25387
Who's on First ID
101873431
Wikishire article ID
Kirkcudbright
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJvRVtQFGWpwpP6vhqgtKd
Yale LUX ID
place/a1b7e2f4-19fe-469d-be7f-bd736b6cd5ad

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🔗 Connections
People born here 5
William Greggan, Edward Telfair, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Cecil Coles, James Craik
People who died here 3
Jessie M. King, James Beaumont Neilson, Edward Atkinson Hornel
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Dumfries and Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire
Country 1
United Kingdom
FactGrid item ID 1
London Borough of Ealing
Historic county 1
Kirkcudbrightshire
Instance of 1
town
Located in time zone 1
UTC+00:00
Location 1
Kirkcudbrightshire
Residents 1
Jessie M. King
SNARC ID 1
Reinhard Goering
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Summary

Kirkcudbright is a town[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . 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. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Dumfries and Galloway, Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbrightshire +1
    Coordinate location → 54.835°, -4.052°
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
    Population → 3,447, 3,420
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48912: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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