Cummertrees

Cummertrees, recorded as Cumbertres in 1204 and 1207, is probably of Cumbric origin. The second element represents *tres 'strife, tumult, violence', cognate with Welsh tres and Gaelic treas. The first element is *cümber, cömber 'confluence. Andrew Breeze proposes the meaning 'confluence of turbulent water'. ==History==

Cummertrees is rural, primarily residential village; the parish includes Powfoot and Trailtrow and is bounded by St Mungo and Hoddam, Annan, the Solway Firth, and Ruthwell and Dalton. A Public hall was erected at Cummertrees in 1893. ==Transport==

Cummertrees railway station was opened in 1848 by the Glasgow, Dumfries and Carlisle Railway, which then became part of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. It was closed by the British Railways Board in 1955. The fine station building survives as a private residence. The village is now served by buses operated by Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire. Route 79 provides an approximately hourly service west to Dumfries and east to Annan and Carlisle. ==Views of Cummertrees==

File:Cummertrees railway station.JPG|The old Cummertrees railway station. File:Cummertrees Parish Church & Lych gate.JPG|The parish church and lychgate. File:Douglas family of Kinmount Mausoleum, Cummertrees, Scotland.JPG|The Douglas Family Mausoleum at Cummertrees Parish Church, traditional burial place of the Marquesses of Queensberry. File:Agnes Hill, Cummertrees, Dumfries, Scotland.JPG|Holiday apartments at Agnes Hill. ==Notable residents==

• Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), travel writer, war correspondent, and feminist, a daughter of the 8th Marquess of Queensberry, was born and lived much of her later life on the Kinmount estate at Glenstewart House after her husband lost his family seat through gambling. She had married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet (1851-1924), known as "Sir A.B.C.D." • Lord Francis Douglas (1847 – 14 July 1865) was a British mountaineer born in Cummertrees. After sharing in the first ascent of the Matterhorn, he died in a fall on the way down from the summit, aged just eighteen. • Steve Ovett lived at Kinmount House from 1988 to 1998. ==References==