page_title: Palnure
hierarchical_section_title: Palnure
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary, Duchess of Bedford, (1865 - 1937), nee Mary Du Caurroy, the wife of the 11th Duke of Bedford on arrival at Croydon Aerodrome, after flying to India and back in a week, a record-breaking flight. She is with her pilot Captain Barnard.
context_page_description: Palnure is a small village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the Palnure Burn, just outside Newton Stewart.
  Cairnsmore was the birthplace of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford son of Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford and his wife Mary Du Caurroy Tribe, DBE, RRC, FLS, 'The Flying Duchess '. He was born in a derelict shepherd's cottage on the moors on 21 December 1888, his mother Lady Herbrand Russell having gone into labour while walking on the moors with her husband.
  He was noted for both his career as a naturalist and for his involvement in far-right politics.
  Until 1951 Palnure had a railway station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway that was closed to all traffic in 1965.
context_section_description: Palnure (Scottish Gaelic: Poll an Iùbhair) is a small village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway,  Scotland, on the Palnure Burn, just outside Newton Stewart.
  Cairnsmore was the birthplace of Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford son of Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford and his wife Mary Du Caurroy Tribe, DBE, RRC, FLS, 'The Flying Duchess '.  He was born in a derelict shepherd's cottage on the moors on 21 December 1888, his mother Lady Herbrand Russell having gone into labour while walking on the moors with her husband.
  
  He was noted for both his career as a naturalist and for his involvement in far-right politics.
  Until 1951 Palnure had a railway station on the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway that was closed to all traffic in 1965.
caption: "The Flying Duchess " and her co-pilot CD Barnard in 1929.
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