Tinwald, Dumfries and Galloway

The village is near the former RAF Tinwald Downs which is the now the Dumfries Aviation Museum.

The Barony and Rectory of Tinwald, before and after the Reformation, belonged to the Maxwell family who appointed the vicars and later the ministers.

[1] On 13 July 1619 Robert Maxwell was served heir to his father, John Maxwell of "terris de Tynwald" in "baroniam de Tynwald".

[2][3] In the 15th century the Tinwald Mote was still the caput or legal head of the barony, where sasine (possession) was given by the ceremony of handing the grantee, before witnesses, a handful of earth and stone from the head messuage called the Mote near the church of Tynwald.

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