Ecclefechan

Ecclefechan, a small village of Dumfriesshire, nearly a mile from a station on the main-line of the Caledonian Railway, 20 miles NW. of Carlisle. Pop. (1841) 768; (1891) 746. Its only interest is that it is the birth and burial place of Thomas Carlyle, and is unmistakably the 'Entepfuhl' of his famous spiritual autobiography, Sartor Resartus. The house in which he was born (4th December 1795) still stands, and in the west corner of the churchyard around the U. P. church, which represents the old Secession church, he was laid, as he wished to be, beside his father and mother.