Qualla: New Abbey https://qualla.com/new-abbey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: New Abbey https://qualla.com/new-abbey New Abbey: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-abbey/ The village takes its name from a 13th-century misunderstanding. The Cistercians who founded the place in 1273 already had a house at Dundrennan; this one, founded by Lady Dervorguilla in memory of her husband, was simply the 'new' monastery - novum monasterium. The Latin name was Dulce Cor, Sweet Heart, for the embalmed heart she carried in an ivory casket for the rest of her life. The village that grew up around the abbey took the second half of the original tag and kept it. New Abbey has been called New Abbey for nearly eight hundred years.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/2/new-abbey-wp/gcv2-new-abbey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full New Abbey: Under Criffel https://qualla.com/new-abbey/ The village sits six miles south of Dumfries in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire. The hill of Criffel, 1,866 feet, rises two and a half miles to the south and dominates the skyline for miles around in every direction. On clear days from New Abbey you can see across the...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/2/new-abbey-wp/gcv2-new-abbey-the-abbey-that-gave-the-village-its-name.mp3 0:06 3 full New Abbey: Mills, Crannogs, and Lost Parishes https://qualla.com/new-abbey/ Just outside the village is Loch Kindar, which contains a crannog - one of the artificial wooden islands that southwest Scotland used as defensible homesteads in the Iron Age and well into the medieval period. The remains of Kirk Kindar, the parish church until just after 1633, s...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/2/new-abbey-wp/gcv2-new-abbey-mills-crannogs-and-lost-parishes.mp3 0:06 4 full New Abbey: The People Who Lived Here https://qualla.com/new-abbey/ For so small a place, New Abbey has produced an unusual roster. Sir William Paterson, the Dumfriesshire-born banker who in 1694 founded the Bank of England, was buried in the village in 1719. The founding director of the Bank of England lies beneath Scottish soil because he came ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/v/2/new-abbey-wp/gcv2-new-abbey-the-people-who-lived-here.mp3 0:06 5 full New Abbey: What You See Today https://qualla.com/new-abbey/ The abbey ruins still dominate the skyline. The Corn Mill still grinds for visitors in summer. Criffel still gathers cloud and breaks it. Two burns still cross the village. The Stewarts' house at Shambellie, just to the west, was for thirty years the National Museum of Costume, w...

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