Sanchar

Sanchar Scots Gaelic: Seanchair [1]
Sanquhar fae the sooth
Sanchar Location within Dumfries an Gallowa
Leid	Inglis Scots leid
OS grid reference	NS781099
Cooncil area	Dumfries an Gallowa
Lieutenancy area	Dumfries
Kintra	Scotland
Sovereign state	Unitit Kinrick
Post toun	Sanquhar
Postcode destrict	DG4
Police	Scots
Fire	Scots
Ambulance	Scots
EU Pairlament	Scotland
UK Pairlament	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale an Tweeddale
Scots Pairlament	Dumfriesshire
Leet o places UK Scotland 55°22′05″N 3°55′29″W / 55.36793°N 3.92463°W / 55.36793; -3.92463Coordinates: 55°22′05″N 3°55′29″W / 55.36793°N 3.92463°W / 55.36793; -3.92463

Sanchar (Inglis: Sanquhar, Scots Gaelic: Seanchair)^[1] is a toun on the River Nith in Dumfries an Gallowa, Scotland. It lies north o Thornhill an wast o Moffat. It is an umwhile Ryal burgh.

Sanchar is kenspeckelt for its peerie post office, estaiblisht in 1712 an haudit tae be the auldest wirkin post office in the warld. It wis the place an aw whaur the Covenanters, that cried again the episcopalisation o the kirk, adheebitit the Sanchar Declaration, renuncin thair allegiance til the king, an event commemoratit bi a moniment in the main street.

The kirk o St Brides conteens a memorial tae James Crichton, a 16-century polymath. The ruins o Sanchar Castle staund nearby. Nithsdale Wanderers F.C., the local team, wis formt in 1897. In 1924-5, the Wanderers wan the Scots Fitbaa League Thrid Diveesion.

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba ~ Gaelic Place-Names of Scotland". Gaelicplacenames.org. Archived frae the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 27 Mairch 2015. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Gaelicplacenames.org" defined multiple times wi different content