Wigtown Bay
Wigtown Bay is a large inlet of the Irish Sea on the coast of Galloway in southwest Scotland. Its coastline falls entirely within the modern administrative area of Dumfries and Galloway and shared between the historical counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.Photo: paul c, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK, on the north shore of the Solway Firth
- Also known as: “Bàgh Bhaile na h-Ùige” and “Wigton Bay”
Wigtown Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Swedish—“Wigtown Bay” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Bàgh Bhaile na h-Ùige”
- Catalan: “Wigtown Bay”
- Cebuano: “Wigtown Bay”
- Irish: “Bàgh Bhaile na h-Ùige”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bàgh Bhaile na h-Ùige”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Bàgh Wigtown”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wigtown Bay”
- Slovenian: “Wigtown Bay”
- Swedish: “Wigtown Bay”
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