Retirement Properties Spotlight in Lockerbie

Dumfries is a market town about 65 miles south of Glasgow and about eight miles from the Solway Firth near the mouth of the River Nith. The area has long been settled by native Britons, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and others until eventually becoming an important Royal Burgh in the 12th century when Lincluden Abbey was founded. The town was often sacked by the English in the middle ages and Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed here in 1745.