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This unusual name derives from the Norse for “Apple-yard” or orchard indicating the fertile nature of the place. A Roman road is thought to have run through Applegarth, in which there are no fewer than 3 camps and 14 hill-forts. Two of the latter are to be found on Dinwoodie Hill, where is also the graveyard of a chapel, said to have belonged to the Knights Templars. At the SW corner of the parish stood its old church, where, on 7 July 1300, Edward I, then marching to besiege Caerlaverock, offered oblation at the altars of the Saints Nicholas and Thomas a Becket. The attractive present church (built 1760; repaired 1822) stands near where the old one stood.
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