Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, close to the town of Gretna, on the Scottish side of the English-Scottish border.
It is accessed from the A74(M) motorway.
Historically Gretna Green was on the Glasgow-Carlisle road, a significant early toll road between England and Scotland.
Gretna Green railway station serves both Gretna Green and Gretna. The Quintinshill rail disaster, the worst rail crash in British history, in which over 220 died, occurred near Gretna Green in 1915.
Gretna Green is most famous for its "runaway marriages".
Distance between:
London to Gretna Green271 Miles / 437 Kms Liverpool to Gretna Green111 Miles / 179 Kms
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