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Johnstounbrig is a veelage in the historical coounty o Dumfriesshire in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland.[1] It is abbot haufwey atween Moffat an Lockerbie, an lies on the A74(M) motorwey. The Annandale Water Services station on this motorwey is in Johnstounbrig; afore the biggin o the motorwey the war services on the auld A74 road there, ane tae serve ilk direction o the road. As with maist o Annandale, the aurie is devotit maist tae fermin.
It wis name't efter the kenspeckle local landawnin faimily, the Johnstones, that biggit a brig there ower the River Annan.[2]
The veelage o Newton Wamphray is nearby.
- ↑ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 78 Nithsdale & Annandale (Sanquhar & Moffat) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2014. ISBN 9780319229590.
- ↑ "Scottish Places: Johnstonebridge". www.scottish-places.info. Retrieved 4 Apryle 2016.