Gretna, Scotland (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gretna is a town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Because they are near the Anglo-Scottish border, nearby Gretna Green and to a lesser extent Gretna, are historically linked to weddings because of the more liberal marriage laws in Scotland. "Gretna" has become a term for a place for quick, easy marriages. Gretna means "(place at the) gravelly hill," from Old English greot "grit" (in the dative form greoten (which is where the -n comes from)" and hoh "hill-spur." The name is equivalent to modern-day Gravelly Hill. The Lochmaben Stone is a megalith standing in a field, nearly a mile west of the Sark mouth on the Solway Firth, three hundred yards or so above high water mark on the farm of Old Graitney. It was one of the traditionally recognised meeting places on the England / Scotland border.