Kirtlebridge

{{Short description|Village in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland}}

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{{Use British English|date=March 2025}}

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Kirtlebridge is a village in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland. It is located {{convert|8|km}} north-east of Annan, {{convert|5|km}} north-west of Kirkpatrick-Fleming, and {{convert|1.5|km}} south of Eaglesfield. The village is located where the A74(M) motorway and the West Coast Main Line railway cross the Kirtle Water.

It used to have a village pub but it is now a licensed guest house which has a residents bar and is very dog friendly.

Kirtlebridge railway station on the main line formerly served the village, and a nearby junction marked the start of the Solway Junction Railway to Annan.{{cite web |url=http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Caledonian_Railway/frame.htm |title=Caledonian Railway |publisher=RAILSCOT |access-date=9 November 2010 |archive-date=2 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502162824/http://www.railbrit.co.uk/Caledonian_Railway/frame.htm |url-status=dead }} The Kirtlebridge rail crash occurred at the station on 2 October 1872, and resulted in 12 deaths.{{cite book |last1=Rolt |first1=L.T.C. |authorlink1=L. T. C. Rolt |last2=Kichenside |first2=Geoffrey |title=Red for Danger |edition=4th |year=1982 |orig-year=1955 |publisher=David & Charles |location=Newton Abbot |isbn=0-7153-8362-0 |pages=63–64 }}

Not far from the village is Bonshaw Tower and its more recent adjoining house. The tower was one of a number of structures built along the border as protection against incursions by the British.[https://clanirving.com/border-regions/ Border Regions]