Whithorn
Whithorn, is a royal burgh in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about 10 miles south of Wigtown. The town was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland, Candida Casa "White/Shining House", built by Saint Ninian about 397 CE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 790 residents
- Description: town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Whitehorn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whithorn Priory and Whithorn Parish Church, Bruce Street, Whithorn.
Whithorn Priory
Historic site
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whithorn Priory was a medieval Scottish monastery that also served as a cathedral, located at 6 Bruce Street in Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway.
Rispain Camp
Archaeological site
Photo: Stevouk, Public domain.
Rispain Camp is the remains of a fortified farmstead 1 mile west of Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is one of the major Iron Age archaeological sites in Scotland.
Whithorn
- Categories: town, small burgh, and locality
- Location: Dumfries and Galloway, South West, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.73369° or 54° 44′ 1″ northLongitude
-4.4135° or 4° 24′ 49″ westPopulation
790Elevation
210 feet (64 metres)Open location code
9C6QPHMP+FJOpenStreetMap ID
node 208129999OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2634042Wikidata ID
Q1788927
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Whithorn” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Whithorn”
- Basque: “Whithorn”
- Cebuano: “Whithorn”
- Dutch: “Whithorn”
- French: “Whithorn”
- German: “Whithorn”
- Irish: “Taigh Mhártainn”
- Irish: “Taigh Mhàrtainn”
- Italian: “Whithorn”
- Japanese: “ウィソーン”
- Japanese: “ウィットホーン”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whithorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whithorn”
- Norwegian: “Whithorn”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hwitern”
- Persian: “ویتهورن”
- Polish: “Whithorn”
- Portuguese: “Whithorn”
- Russian: “Уиторн”
- Scots: “Whithorn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Futerna”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Taigh Mhartainn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Taigh Mhàrtainn”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Whithorn”
- Spanish: “Whithorn”
- Swedish: “Whithorn”
- Welsh: “Whithorn”
- “Whithorn”
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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 “Whithorn”. Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.