Qualla: Sorbie https://qualla.com/sorbie en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/sorbie-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Sorbie https://qualla.com/sorbie Sorbie: Introduction https://qualla.com/sorbie/ Photo credit Andrew Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0. Five canoes came out of Dowalton Loch when they drained it in the 19th century. The loch had been about three miles round, six to twenty feet deep, and when the water was finally let go in the 1860s, archaeologists found two artificial islands, the remains of lake-dwellings built by people who lived here before the Romans wrote anything down about Britain. Bronze vessels, glass beads, querns, whetstones, and amber came up out of the mud. Sorbie is the kind of village whose surface looks unassuming and whose underlayers run all the way back to the Iron Age.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/sorbie-wp/gcsz-sorbie-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Sorbie: A Village on the A714 https://qualla.com/sorbie/ Photo credit Mark McKie, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sorbie sits midway between Wigtown and Whithorn on the A714, the main road through the Machars. Farming is the principal industry, as it has always been. The parish church, dating from around 1755, is a large T-plan structure that has lost its roof. Millisle Church, a kilometre w...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/sorbie-wp/gcsz-sorbie-a-village-on-the-a714.mp3 0:06 2 full Sorbie: Sorbie Tower and Clan Hannay https://qualla.com/sorbie/ Photo credit MSD, CC BY-SA 3.0. One mile east of the village stands Sorbie Tower, the ancient seat of Clan Hannay. A modest motte beside the tower marks where an earlier medieval stronghold once stood. The Hannays held this ground for centuries, weathering the feuds and shifting allegiances of Border Scotland. ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/sorbie-wp/gcsz-sorbie-sorbie-tower-and-clan-hannay.mp3 0:06 3 full Sorbie: Carswell, Cleared for a Mansion https://qualla.com/sorbie/ Photo credit Andrew Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0. When the Earl of Galloway decided in the mid 18th century to build Galloway House, his grand new seat between Garlieston Bay and Rigg Bay, there was a problem: the village of Carswell occupied part of the proposed grounds. He moved its residents to the new planned settlement of G...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/sorbie-wp/gcsz-sorbie-carswell-cleared-for-a-mansion.mp3 0:06 4 full Sorbie: Creamery, Granite Works, and What Comes Next https://qualla.com/sorbie/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Goose assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. For many years a large creamery operated beside Sorbie railway station, with some of its products shipped out through the port at nearby Garlieston. The creamery closed in the 1990s. Galloway Granite took over the site for a while, and has since relocated to Newton Stewart, leavi...

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