Ecclefechan
Ecclefechan is in the parliamentary constituency of Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale, David Mundell is the current Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP).For local government purposes, it belongs to the Annandale East + Eskdale Ward of the Dumfries and Galloway Council Area.According to letters from Carlyle written to Charles Gavin Duffy in the summer of 1846, his mother's farm in Ecclefechan was at that time located in Scotsbrig.[3] From Scotsbrig, Carlyle watched the construction of the Caledonian Railway and complained to Duffy of Ecclefechan's potato blight, and the abundance of railway navvies from Lancashire, Ireland, and Yorkshire, finding his visit home disturbed by the "black potato-fields, and all roads and lanes overrun with drunken navvies".[clarification needed] In A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, Hugh MacDiarmid writes: "And as at sicna times am I, I wad ha'e Scotland to my eye Until I saw a timeless flame Tak' Auchtermuchty for a name, And kent that Ecclefechan stood As pairt o' an eternal mood."
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