page_title: Kirkcudbrightshire
section_title: Towns and villages
hierarchical_section_title: Kirkcudbrightshire / Towns and villages
caption_attribution_description: English: The Square of Auchencairn. Viewed from Church Road, Main Street (with the large English style building) branches right with Spout Row behind the old decorative globe street lamp. The 18th century white building to the right is the former Commercial Inn.
context_page_description: Kirkcudbrightshire, or the County of Kirkcudbright or the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, is a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area in the informal Galloway area of south-western Scotland. For local government purposes, it forms part of the wider Dumfries and Galloway council area of which it forms a committee area under the name of the Stewartry.
  The county is occasionally referred to as East Galloway, forming the larger Galloway region with Wigtownshire. It is bounded on the north and north-west by Ayrshire, on the west and south-west by Wigtownshire, on the south and south-east by the Irish Sea and the Solway Firth, and on the east and north-east by Dumfriesshire.
  It maintains a strong regional and distinct political identity. It formed a district in the Dumfries and Galloway region and today the Stewartry is an area committee represented by eight councillors. Local administration of the area today is overseen by a Stewartry Area Manager, based in the county town of Kirkcudbright. The current Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright, the Crown's representative in the area, is Elizabeth Patricia Gilroy.
context_section_description: Auchencairn
  Balmaclellan
  Beeswing
  Borgue
  Bridge of Dee
  Cargenbridge
  Carsethorn
  Carsphairn
  Castle Douglas
  Colvend
  Corsock
  Creetown
  Crocketford
  Crossmichael
  Dalbeattie
  Gatehouse of Fleet
  Hardgate
  Haugh of Urr
  Ingleston
  Kirkcudbright
  Kirkgunzeon
  Kirkpatrick Durham
  Kippford
  Laurieston
  Maxwelltown (the largest burgh in the Stewartry, on the western side of Dumfries over the River Nith, was transferred in 1930 to Dumfriesshire, and is now a suburb of the town of Dumfries)
  Minnigaff
  New Abbey
  New Galloway
  Palnackie
  Rascarrel
  Ringford
  Rockcliffe
  St. John's Town of Dalry
  Sandyhills
  Shawhead
  Springholm
  Terregles
  Tongland
  Twynholm
caption: Auchencairn
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