SPRINGFIELD, a village, in the parish of GraitNEY, county of Dumfries, 4 miles (W.) from Longtown, in England; containing 453 inhabitants. This is a neat and well-built village, situated on a dry and healthy soil, on the west bank of the river Sark. It was commenced in 1791, upou the estate of Sir William Maxwell, of Springkell, on building leases for ninetynine years. In 1793 it already consisted of about forty houses, and since that time it has considerably increased, owing to the advantages it possesses with respect to situation. The river is well adapted for machinery; the small port of Sarkfoot is not above a mile distant, and the great road from England to the west of Scotland passes through. The Caledonian railway and the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle railway form a junction here. About a quarter of a mile south of the village is Graitney, or Gretna, green. See Graitney.