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Gretna green can be found at Scotland's gate way to
England driving across the iron bridge of the river Sark that
connects Cumbria with the lowlands of Dumfries and Galloway .
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Gretna
Green remains one of the most romantic places on earth for those
couples who fantasize about eloping secretly to Scotland to be married over the anvil at the famous blacksmiths shop.
The history starts on March 26th 1754 when a Lord Hardwicke drafted
the marriage act, this completely changed a remote coaching stop, just
one mile over the border into Scotland forever. The marriage
act declared if a couple at the age of sixteen wanted to marry without a parent's consent that they would have to wait until they reached
the age of
21.
Of course true love could not wait, so as Scotland had not accepted
the new legislation on marriage a couple wanting to marry at sixteen
only had to cross the border enabling Gretna Green to
develop its famous
trade in couples eloping across the border to tie the knot.
By the mid nineteen century the government of Scotland introduced
an act to reduce the amount of elopements, this brought about
legislation that any couple wishing to
marry in Scotland would have to prove that they had resided in the
county for 21 days.
Today the blacksmith shop is a museum which is visited by
tourists from old of the world. Here you will discover a history off
up to 8,000 marriages between 1814 and 1840 and dashes through the
night of desperate lovers unable to wait until the legal age of 21
in England. The hotels of Gretna & Gretna Green offer four poster
beds, chocolates, single stemmed roses and champagne, let Gretna
Green bring out the romance during your visit. Enjoy listening to
Scottish bagpipes while sipping champagne, for the traveller a visit
to this historically romantic place will encourage a second visit.
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