The modern location of the place is given in parentheses.
Academy (Academy Street) Dumfries
Note: Instituted in 1802
Academy Street (Academy Street) Dumfries
Albany Place (Albany) Dumfries
Note: Noted under 'Resident Gentry' - appears erroneously as 'Albion Place'
Albion Place - see entry for Albany Place (Albany) Dumfries
Note: In the Pigot &c. Directory for 1825/26 there are six entries for 'Albion Place' which, based on other evidence, probably correctly represents Albany Place.
Alliance Insurance (High Street) Dumfries
Assembly Street (Assembly Street) Dumfries
Atlas Insurance [Co.] (English Street) Dumfries
Bank of Scotland, Commercial - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Merchants, Tradesmen &c., Banks (open from ten to three) -
Bank of Scotland (Irish Street) Dumfries
Note: Merchants, Tradesmen &c., Banks (open from ten to three) .. drawn on Coutts & Co., London
Bank Street (Bank Street) Dumfries
Note: Merchants, Tradesmen &c., Banks (open from ten to three) -
Bank, British Linen Company - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Merchants, Tradesmen &c., Banks (open from ten to three) - .. drawn on Smith, Payne & Co.
Bank, Galloway - (at the Kings Arms Inn) (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Merchants, Tradesmen &c., Banks (open from ten to three) - Galloway Bank - attends at the Kings Arms Inn every Wednesday and Thursday
Brewery Street (Brewery Street) Dumfries
Brown Hall (Glencaple Road) Dumfries
Buccleugh Street (Buccleuch Street) Dumfries
Burns Street (Burns' Street) Dumfries
Carrier, Auchencairn - (Castle Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from Castle Street every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Carlisle - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High Street every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Carlisle & Newcastle - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'From High Street .. arrives every Wednesday and departs same day'.
Carrier, Crieff - (English Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 80 English Street, every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Dalbeattie - (Castle Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from Castle Street, every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Dalbeattie - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers,'from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Ecclefechan - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Edinburgh - (Assembly Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 7 Assembly St., every Thursday'.
Carrier, Edinburgh - (English Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 80 English St., every Saturday'.
Carrier, Edinburgh - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from Farries, High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Edinburgh - (Queen Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 14 Queen St., .. every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Edinburgh - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 17 Queensberry St., every Thursday'.
Carrier, Edinburgh - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 25 Queensberry St., arrives Monday, and departs on Thurdsay
Carrier, Edinburgh - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 26 Queensberry St., .. arrives on Wednesday, and departs on Saturday'.
Carrier, Edinburgh - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 33 Queensberry St., every Thursday'.
Carrier, Gatehouse - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Glasgow - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High St., every Saturday'.
Carrier, Glasgow - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 26 Queensberry St., every Saturday'.
Carrier, Kilpatrick - (Brewery Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from Papple's, Brewery St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Kilpatrick - (Whitesands) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from G. Johnston's Whitesands, every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Kirkbean - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'leaves from Farries, High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Kirkbean - (Whitesands) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'Mark Jardine leaves from Johnstons, Whitesands, every Tues. & Sat.'.
Carrier, Kirkcudbright - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Lockerbie - (English Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'Wm., Mundell, from 80 English St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Moffat - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, New Abbey - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, New Galloway - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'From High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, New Galloway - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'From Farries, High St., every Wednesday'
Carrier, Newton Stewart - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Parton - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from Farries, High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Parton - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'John Thomson from Farries, High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Sanquhar & Thornhill - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'Sanquhar & Thornhill, John Walker, from 26 Queensberry St., arrives every Wednesday, and departs Saturday'.
Carrier, Southwick - (Whitesands) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'John Carson, from Johnston's Whitesands, every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Thornhill - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'from 14 Queensberry St. every Saturday'.
Carrier, Thornhill - (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'Andrew Watson, from 22 Queensberry Street, every Saturday'.
Carrier, Wigto[w]n - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'John Gill, from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carrier, Wigto[w]n - (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Carriers, 'Wm. Gibson, from High St., every Wednesday'.
Carsewell Dumfries
Note: Not currently identified
Castle Dyke[s] (Glencaple Road) Dumfries
Castle Street (Castle Street) Dumfries
Chapel Street (Chapel Street) Dumfries
Chapel, First United Secession - (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
Chapel, Independent - (Irish Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
Chapel, Methodist - (Queen Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
Chapel, Relief - New Street (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship - the Relief chapel lay between Loreburn and Queensberry Streets
Chapel, Roman Catholic (Shakespeare Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
Chapel, Scotch Episcopal (Buccleuch Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
Chapel, Second United Secession - (Buccleuch Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
Church Place (Church Place) Dumfries
Church, New - (High Street (Head of )) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship - predecessor of Greyfriars Church
Church, St Michael's (St Michael's Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
Clerk Hill (Clerkhill) Dumfries
Closeburn (Closeburn)
Note: Mentioned under 'Merchants, Tradesmen &c., Bleachers' - see entry for Trailflat
Coach, Edinburgh - 'The Robert Burns' (Assembly Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - The Robert Burns, from the Dumfries and Galloway Hotel, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning at eight, and returns the following afternnoon at five.
Coach, Edinburgh - The Royal Mail (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - The Royal Mail, from the Kings Arms, High Street, every morning at quarter before seven, through Moffat &c. and returns every afternoon, at half past three, in time for the mail to Castle Douglas, Stranraer, and Portpatrick
Coach, Kilmarnock - 'The Robert Bruce' (Assembly Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - The Robert Bruce, from the Dumfries and Galloway Hotel at eight in the morning, during the Summer months.
Coach, London & Carlisle - 'The Royal Mail' (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - The Royal Mail, from the Kings Arms, High Street, every evening at a quarter before seven, through Annan, and returns for Castle Douglas, Stranraer, and Port Patrick, every afternoon at four.
Coach, London, Carlisle & Liverpool - 'The New Times' (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - London, Carlisle & Liverpool, The New Times, from the Kings Arms, High Street, every evening at five, through Kendal, Lancaster, and Preston, and returns for Thornhill, Sanquhar, Mauchline, and Kilmarnock, every morning at eight
Coach, London, Carlisle & Manchester - 'The Independent' (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - London, Carlisle & Manchester - The Independent, from the Commercial Inn, every evening at five, through Kendal, Lancaster, Preston, Buxton, Derby, Leicester, Northampton, and St Albans, and returns for Thornhill, Sanquhar, Cumnock, Mauchline,
Coach, Newton-Stewart 'The Express' (Assembly Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - Newton Stewart, The Express, from the Dumfries and Galloway Hotel, every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday morning at ten, and returns the following afternoon at half past four
Commercial Inn (High Street) Dumfries
Council Stairs (High Street) Dumfries
County Tax Office (Greyfriars Street) Dumfries
Note: County Tax Office, 1 Greyfriars Street
Court House (Buccleuch Street) Dumfries
Craigs Dumfries
Crown Inn (High Street) Dumfries
Custom House (Shakespeare Street) Dumfries
Dawson's Cottage Dumfries
Note: Not yet identified
Dock Head (Dockhead) Dumfries
Dumfries & Galloway Hotel (Assembly Street) Dumfries
Dumfries and Galloway Courier (High Street) Dumfries
Dumfries Weekly Journal (English Street) Dumfries
Eagle Insurance Agents (English Street) Dumfries
Edinburgh Life Assurance Co. (High Street) Dumfries
English Street (English Street) Dumfries
Excise Office, Kings Arms Inn (High Street) Dumfries
Flesh Market (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
Note: There is some confusion in this directory between the 'Fleshmarket' formerly in what is called 'Old Fleshmarket Street' (now Queensberry Street) and the New FleshMarket which was in 'New Flesh Market Street' (now the southern length of Loreburn Street bet
Fleshmarket Street (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: See under Flesh Market
Friars Vennel (Friars Vennel) Dumfries
Galloway Bank (at the Kings Arms Inn) (High Street) Dumfries
Gentlemen's Day Academy (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
George Street (George Street) Dumfries
Globe Inn (High Street) Dumfries
Globe Insurance (English Street) Dumfries
Greenbrae (Greenbrae Loaning) Dumfries
Grey Friars St (Greyfriars Street) Dumfries
Hannah Field (Hannah Field) Dumfries
Hercules Insurance (Bank Street & Irish Street) Dumfries
Note: Note two entries
High Street (High Street) Dumfries
High Street (behind Mid Steeple) (High Street) Dumfries
High Street (Long Close) (High Street) Dumfries
High Street (Muirs Close) (High Street) Dumfries
Huntingdon Lodge (Moffat Road) Dumfries
Insurance Co. of Scotland (Church Place) Dumfries
Insurance companies
Note: - see under individual names
Irish Street (Irish Street) Dumfries
Irish Street, Long Close (Irish Street) Dumfries
Kalton [sic ] Dumfries
Note: ? Kelton
Kalton Manse[sic] Dumfries
Note: Not clarified
King Street (Great King Street) Dumfries
Kings Arms, Glasgow Street (Glasgow Street) Maxwelltown
Kings Arms, High Street (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - The Royal Mail, from the Kings Arms, High Street, every morning at quarter before seven, through Moffat &c. and returns every afternoon, at half past three, in time for the mail to Castle Douglas, Stranraer, and Portpatrick
Kings Arms, High Street (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - The Royal Mail, from the Kings Arms, High Street, every evening at a quarter before seven, through Annan, and returns for Castle Douglas, Stranraer, and Port Patrick, every afternoon at four.
Kings Arms, High Street (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Coaches, - London, Carlisle & Liverpool, The New Times, from the Kings Arms, High Street, every evening at five, through Kendal, Lancaster, and Preston, and returns for Thornhill, Sanquhar, Mauchline, and Kilmarnock, every morning at eight
Kings Arms, High Street (High Street) Dumfries
Note: Excise Office
Ladyfield (Glencaple Road) Dumfries
Loch Bank ( ) Dumfries
Long Close, High Street (High Street) Dumfries
Note: The Long Close connected between Irish Street and the High Street
Long Close, Irish Street (Irish Street) Dumfries
Lower Burn Street (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
Lower Netherwood Dumfries
Lowerburn Street (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
Lowerburns Street (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
Mid Park
Note: Not clarified
Mill Street (Mill Street) Dumfries
Moat (Academy Street) Dumfries
Moss Lane End
Note: Not clarified
Mountain Hall (Bankend Road) Dumfries
Netherwood, Lower - Dumfries
Netherwood, Upper - (Glencaple Road) Dumfries
New Bridge Street (Newbridge Street) Dumfries
New Church (High Street (Head of )) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship - predecessor of Greyfriars Church
New Fleshmarket Street (Loreburn Street) Dumfries
Note: See under Flesh Market
Nith Bank or Nithbank (Nithbank) Dumfries
Nith Place (Nith Place) Dumfries
Nithside Maxwelltown
Norwich Union [Insurance Co.] (High Street) Dumfries
Nun Holm (Nunholm/Albany) Dumfries
Nunfield Cottage (Edinburgh Road) Dumfries
Old Fleshmarket Street (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: See under Flesh Market
Phoenix Insurance [Co.] (High Street) Dumfries
Pleasance (Annan Road) Dumfries
Poors' Hospital (St Michael's Street) Dumfries
Note: Moorheads' Hospital
Post Office (Castle Street) Dumfries
Note: Post Office - notes details of services
Queen Street (Queen Street) Dumfries
Queensberry Square (Queensberry Square) Dumfries
Queensberry Street (Queensberry Street) Dumfries
Note: Formerly Old Fleshmarket Street
Reading Room (High Street) Dumfries
Reading Rooms, Subscription - (High Street) Dumfries
Rose Bank (Bankend Road) Dumfries
Rose Hall (Glencaple Road) Dumfries
Sandbed (Whitesands/Greensands) Dumfries
Note: Name associated with the Over or Green Sandbeds (Greensands), Nethersandbeds (the Whitesands) or Laigh Sandbeds and finally the early Sandbedmiln which stood just downstream of the end of Friars' Vennel
Scotland, Insurance Co. of - (Church Place) Dumfries
Scottish Union Insurance [Co.] (Queen Street) Dumfries
Shakespeare Street (Shakespeare Street) Dumfries
St Andrew Street (St Andrew's Street) Dumfries
St David Street (St David Street) Dumfries
St Michael's Church (St Michael's Street) Dumfries
Note: Places of Worship
St Michael Street (St Michael's Street) Dumfries
Stamp Office (Bank Street) Dumfries
Stone House Maxwelltown
Note: Noted under 'Resident Gentry': possibly the 'Stonehouse which appears a short distance to the SE of Stakeford House on the 1850 OS Sheets. Stonehouse Croft was part of the lands of Staikford (Valuation roll of 1819 and belonging to M.Johnston & C.H.Philip
Suffolk [Insurance Co.] (High Street) Dumfries
Summer Hill (Summerhill) Maxwelltown
Tax Office, County - (Greyfriars Street) Dumfries
Note: County Tax Office, 1 Greyfriars Street
Tax Office. Town - (Irish Street) Dumfries
Townhead Street (Townhead Street) Dumfries
Trailflat [Tinwald parish]
Note: The Dumfries 'Town' bleachfields were at Trailflat
Troqueer Maxwelltown
Note: No specific details provided
Turnpike Maxwelltown
Note: Not identified
United Empire [Insurance Co.] (Castle Street & High Street) Dumfries
Note: Two entries
Upper Netherwood (Glencaple Road) Dumfries
Wallgreen House
Note: Not identified
Waterloo Street (Waterloo Street) Dumfries
Note: Part of Whitesands
West of England [Insurance Co.] (English Street) Dumfries
Whitesands (Whitesands) Dumfries