Most folk come to CASTLE DOUGLAS ( ), eighteen miles southwest of Dumfries, simply in order to visit the nearby attractions of Threave Garden and Castle. The man responsible for the town's late eighteenth-century grid-plan streets (and its name) is William Douglas, a local lad who made a fortune trading in the West Indies. Douglas had ambitious plans to turn his town into a prosperous industrial and commercial centre, but, like his scheme to create an extensive Gall... [More]