Knockbrex

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Knockbrex
Kirkcudbrightshire
Knockbrex Castle - geograph.org.uk - 933051.jpg
Knockbrex Castle
Location
Grid reference: NX585496
Location: 54°49’19"N, 4°12’9"W
Data
Postcode: DG6
Local Government
Council: Dumfries and Galloway
Parliamentary
constituency:
Dumfries and Galloway

Knockbrex is a hamlet in Kirkcudbrightshire, in the south-west of the county overlooking Wigtown Bay. It is within the Parish of Borgue.

There is a fine country house here also named Knockbrex of Knockbrex Castle; A plain neo-Georgian rubble-walled manor house built in 1900 for the Manchester businessman James Brown and incorporating at the eastern end a refaced and remodelled early 19th century building.[1]

Knockbrex is the closest mainland village to the Islands of Fleet (joined to the mainland at low tide) of which Murray's Isles are in the care of the National Trust for Scotland.

References

the Shore at Knockbrex