Minnigaff
Coordinates: 54°58′01″N 4°28′59″W / 54.966958°N 4.483167°W
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Garlies Castle, Minnigaff
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Kirkcudbrightshire, civil parish map
Minnigaff is a village and civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland. Lead was discovered there in 1763 and mined about two miles from the village until 1839. [1]
Minnigaff is the birthplace of Sir James Mirrlees, winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
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