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Extract from the Gatehouse of Fleet Travel Guides:
Like Castle Douglas,
GATEHOUSE OF FLEET
, ten miles west of Kirkcudbright, has a distinctive long, dead straight main street. However, the quiet streets of Gatehouse have none of the life and bustle of Castle Douglas. By contrast, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the town was a thriving industrial centre with cotton mills, shipbuilding and a brewery. The man who made all this happen (and made himself immeasurably rich in the process) was the local laird James Murray (1727-99). Yorkshire mill owners provided the industrial expertise, imported engineers designed aqueducts to improve the water supply, and dispossessed c...
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