ANNAN, royal and municipal burgh, Dumfriesshire, Scot land, on the Annan, nearly 2m. from its mouth and 15m. from Dumfries by the L.M.S.R. Pop. (1931) 3,959. There is a branch line from Kirtlebridge and a railway viaduct one mile long crosses the Solway Firth to Port Carlisle (Cumberland). The river Annan is crossed by a stone bridge (1824) and a railway bridge. The Harbour Trust, constituted in 1897, improved the shipping accommodation, giving 5ft. depth at high-water spring tides. The principal industries include bacon-curing, distilling, sandstone quarrying, corn-milling and nursery gardening. Large marine engineering works are in the vicinity. Roman remains exist in the neighbourhood. Edward Irving was a native of the town.