Have only just picked up on these latest developments. The map extract shows the modern main street, which lies east of the railway line from Carlisle to Glasgow. Beattock is quite a complex composite, and was at least partly on the Craigielands Estate. There was an older village known as the Back Village west of the railway line, close to the former railway station, which cottages have been referred to directly as Craigielands village in some documents (my grandmother was brought up in the Back Village at Braehead). Continuing south, on the west side of the railway, across the edge of Craigielands Park are more cottages, a former schoolhouse and the parish church, about a kilometre south of the modern village. People might have the designation Craigielands in the census etc, referring to the Back Village. However the original correspondent referred to Craigielands Hall which suggests the mansion house, although I suggested the farm of Craigielands Hill. One of the correspondents is correct, the estate did belong to Colvin, who sponsored the statue of a ram in Moffat centre. It then passed to Smith and Smith's widow, and then the Forman family (Adam Forman wrote several books on this period, one called 'Son of Adam'. It is currently run as a caravan park and recreational centre and can be found as such on the web.
