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Extract from the Castle Douglas Travel Guides:
Most folk come to
CASTLE DOUGLAS
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), eighteen miles southwest of Dumfries, simply in order to visit the nearby attractions of Threave Garden and Castle. The man responsible for the town's late eighteenth-century grid-plan streets (and its name) is William Douglas, a local lad who made a fortune trading in the West Indies. Douglas had ambitious plans to turn his town into a prosperous industrial and commercial centre, but, like his scheme to create an extensive Galloway canal system, it didn't quite work. Still, thanks to Douglas, the town now has a distinctive, dead straight main street,
King Street
, that...
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