The Whaup
The Whaup (English: Whauphill) is a smaw veelage locatit in the Machars in the historical coonty o Wigtounshire in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland.[1]
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The Whaup is a hub that uphauds the local industry, mainly fermin an agricultur. Thare is twa tractor shaps: a faimily-run Massey Ferguson dealerskip, an a brainch o Gordon's Agricultural Engineers. Thare is a brainch o Tarff, a kintra shap, and feed merchand. Thare is an aw a post office, and a veelage haw.
The Whaup uised tae hae a railway station, a veelage shap, a hottle, an a public hoose, but sadly the advent o the motor caur, an Lord Beecham endit the railwey station, and the veelage shap follaed quick. The hottle wis closed whan the change-keeper dee'd o cancer. Recent drink-drivin laws an an increase in alcohol taxin hid caused revenues in the public hoose tae faw til the pynt whaur it wis no langer viable and it closed. Cooncil cuts wis gaun tae cause the veelage haw tae close bit in an end tae the lang-term dwinnlin in The Whaup, a community group his noo taen control o the veelage haw fae the cooncil an is uisin it successfu tae rin local community events.
Namely fowk
eedit- Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew (1822-1848) - Breetish ceevil servand o the East Indie Company, whase murther durin the Siege o Multan bi the reteeners o Dewan Mulraj Chopra led til the Seicont Sikh War an til the Breetish annexation o the Pubjab.
- Robert Vans Agnew (1817-1893) - Scots Conservative Pairty politeecian. He wis electit as the UK Member o Pairlament for Wigtownshire at a bi-election in 1873.
Barnbarroch Hoose
eeditBarnbarroch Hoose, the auncestral seat o the Vans Agnew faimily, wis a Classical hoose built in 1780, wi later addeetionsan remodelin bi John Claudius Loudon in 1806. The Hoose is noo a shell haein been burnt doun in 1942, killin Mrs Vans Agnew.[2]
References
eedit- ↑ "City (town) Whauphill: map, population, location". www.tiptopglobe.com. Archived frae the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2020.
- ↑ "Barnbarroch House, Whauphill - Buildings at Risk Register". www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk. Archived frae the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 6 Apryle 2020.
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