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| | Historical perspective for Langholm (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The old town includes one principal street with a central market-place, and consists of houses mostly built of white freestone from Whita or Langholm Hill, and many of them in a style superior to what are seen in most small towns. |
 | | Erected into a burgh of barony by charter from the Crown in 1643, Langholm was long governed by a baron bailie, under the Duke of Buccleuch as superior; but now its affairs are managed by commissioners of police, comprising a chief magistrate and 15 other members. |
 | | Langholm Castle, a plain square tower or peel-house, now a ruin, belonged to the Armstrongs, the powerful Border freebooters, and sent forth Johnnie Armstrong of Gilnockie, with his gallant company of thirty-six men, to disport themselves upon Langholm Holm, prior to their execution by James V. at Caerlanrig (1529). |
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