Old Luce

Old Luce
Old Luce is located in Dumfries and Galloway
Old Luce
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54°52′41″N 4°48′40″W / 54.878°N 4.811°W / 54.878; -4.811

Old Luce is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It lies in the Machars peninsula, in the traditional county of Wigtownshire. The parish is around 10 miles (16 km) long and 8 miles (13 km) broad, and contains 40,350 acres (16,330 ha).[1]

It was anciently named Glenluce which was divided in 1646 into two parts, the northern one named New Luce, and the southern one named Old Luce.[2] [3] In 1661 the two parishes of Old and New Luce were reunited for a time, and when the 1684 Wigtownshire Parish List was recorded, it listed both Old Luce and New Luce under “Glenluce Parish”.[4] In 1688, after the Glorious Revolution, the separation of Old Luce and New Luce became permanent. Old Luce has a Community Council.[5]

  1. ^ "Parish of Old Luce from the Gazetteer for Scotland". Scottish-places.info.
  2. ^ Chalmers, George (7 July 1810). "Caledonia; or, An account, historical and topographic, of North Britain; from the most ancient to the present times". London, Cadell. Retrieved 7 July 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  3. ^ Chambers, William; Chambers, Robert (7 July 1838). "The gazetteer of Scotland. [With plates and maps.]". Glasgow. Retrieved 7 July 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  4. ^ "Parish lists of Wigtownshire and Minnigaff, 1684". 1916.
  5. ^ "Glenluce-Online Old Luce Community Council". Archived from the original on 26 July 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2012.