Sorbie

Sorbie is a small village in Wigtownshire, Machars, within the Administration area of Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scotland.It is located midway between Wigtown and Whithorn on the A714 road.Farming forms the principal local industry in the area.The Sorbie Village Hall is used by a number of groups.Sorbie Parish Church, in the centre of the village, dates from around 1755 and is a large T-plan structure, now de-roofed.Millisle Church, 1km west of Garlieston, was designed by Alan Stewart, the 10th Earl of Galloway (1835 - 1901).A junction on the Wigtownshire Railway opened in Millisle in 1876. Sorbie station on the Wigtownshire Railway branch of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway which closed in the 1964 formerly served Sorbie village.For many years Sorbie had a creamery located beside the railway station, some of whose products were once exported via the port at nearby Garlieston. The creamery finally closed in the 1990s and the site occupied by a granite works. Galloway Granite has now relocated to Newton Stewart and the works now appear to be abandoned and in a state of dereliction.HistorySorbie parish was a seventeenth-century amalgamation of Sorbie, Kirkmadrine and Cruggleton. Timothy Pont's 17th century map shows Kirck of CruggeltownAinslie's 1782 map shows Sorby Parish and the church by the Village of Sorbie