Kirkpatrick-Juxta

Kirkpatrick-Juxta is a parish in Dumfries and Galloway on the A701, between Biggar, Moffat and Lockerbie.

One source describes its name as meaning "the lands next to the church of St Patrick".

[2] The 1791-1845 Statistical Accounts of Scotland described the size of the Parish as 21,000 acres or 33 square miles with Johnstone Parish to the South, Crawford and closeburn to the West and Wamphry and Moffat to the East and North.

[3] The parish church was built in 1798/1799 designed by John McCracken a mason from Dumfries.

[1] The parish includes Beattock railway station, sections of the River Annan and Queensberry Hill.