Canonbie
Canonbie (population 390) is a small village in Dumfriesshire within the regional authority area of Dumfries as well as Galloway in Scotland, six miles south of Langholm and 2 miles north of the Anglo-Scottish boundary. It gets on the A7 road from Carlisle to Edinburgh, and the River Esk streams with it. There are regular referrals in older documents to it as Canobie. Canonbie was immortalised in a poem by Sir Walter Scott qualified Marmion. A famous section covers the ventures of young Lochinvar. Having actually taken the hand of the new bride of Netherby Hall, concerning 3 miles southern of Canonbie, the rushing knight is gone after with Canonbie, but makes good his escape.
