County town of Dumfries and Galloway - pronounced kur-KOO-bree, for those unfamiliar with this part of Scotland!
The name derives from the Gaelic meaning Chapel of Cuthbert, the saint whose mortal remains were kept at the town between their exhumation
at Lindisfarne and reinterment at Chester-le-Street. The town dates back at least to the 12th century, when there was a Franciscan community
here, though no traces of that exist any more. It became a royal burgh in the 15th century.