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February 16, 2008
Kirkcudbright High Street
One of our favorite authors for many years has been Dorothy L. Sayers and one of our favorite works of hers is “The Five Red Herrings”. Most of her stories that take place outside London are set in contrived locations. However, in this case, the events described in her novel take place amongst the almost unaltered landscape in and around Kirkudbright. This naturally put this small town high on our list of places to visit when we finally made time for a visit to Scotland.
If you are a fan of the book and happen to find yourself in town, you can drop by one of the local bookstores and see if they have a copy of “Dorothy L. Sayers in Galloway”, a small monograph by a member of the Sayers Society. It details where in the area many of the locations in the book are to be found. If the bookstores do not have a copy, the stewartry museum, worth a quiet afternoon in its own right, does.
The pictures I post here are in the somewhat incoherent order in which we visited or discovered them, not the more logical order in which the appeared in the book. Haven’t the time to sort things to that level of detail I’m afraid. The first image is from right outside the inn we stayed at. This is the High Street running west-north-west toward the tollbooth and the Dee. The “McClellan Arms” is behind us on the right side of the street and Wimsey’s logings are around the corner ahead to the right.
Filed under Literary Locations, Travel, United Kingdom, Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway, Kirkcudbright, Dorothy L. Sayers and “The Five Red Herrings”.
Posted by eric at February 16, 2008 02:47 PM