Wigtown
Wigtown is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the county town, within the Dumfries and Galloway region in Scotland. It lies east of Stranraer and south of Newton Stewart.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 900 residents
- Description: town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Baile na h-Ùige”, “Scotland’s National Book Town”, and “Wigton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sacred Heart Church and Wigtown Parish Church, Wigtown.
Wigtown Castle
Archaeological site
Wigtown Castle was a royal castle that was located on the banks of the River Bladnoch, south of Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. A castle was built in the 12th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wigtown Harbour and Palnure.
Wigtown Harbour
Locality
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wigtown Harbour or Wigtown Quay was relocated in 1818 to serve the town of Wigtown and its hinterland in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, following the silting up of the original natural harbour that was originally located near to St Machute's church.
Palnure
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Palnure is a small village in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the Palnure Burn, just outside Newton Stewart. Palnure is situated 5 miles north of Wigtown.
Wigtown
- Categories: small burgh and locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.8687° or 54° 52′ 7″ northLongitude
-4.44157° or 4° 26′ 30″ westPopulation
900Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WIGOpen location code
9C6QVH95+F9OpenStreetMap ID
node 31173377OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Wigtown” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Wigtown”
- Basque: “Wigtown”
- Breton: “Baile na h-Ùige”
- Catalan: “Wigtown”
- Cebuano: “Wigtown”
- Chinese: “威格敦”
- Dutch: “Wigtown”
- Esperanto: “Baile na h-Ùige”
- French: “Baile na h-Ùige”
- French: “Wigtown”
- German: “Wigtown”
- Irish: “Baile na h-Úige”
- Irish: “Baile na h-Ùige”
- Irish: “Wigtown”
- Italian: “Wigtown”
- Japanese: “ウィグタウン”
- Persian: “ویگتاون”
- Polish: “Wigtown”
- Russian: “Уигтаун”
- Scots: “Wigtoun”
- Scots: “Wigtown”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile na h-Uige”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Baile na h-Ùige”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Wigtown”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wigtown”
- Spanish: “Baile na h-Ùige”
- Spanish: “Wigtown”
- Swedish: “Wigtown”
- Welsh: “Wigtown”
- “Wigtown”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Wigtown Town Hall and Wigtown Baptist Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wigtown”. Photo: Jeff Tomlinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.