Wigtown Harbour or Wigtown Quay was relocated in 1818[1] to serve the town of Wigtown and its hinterland in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, following the silting up of the original natural harbour[2] that was originally located near to St Machute's church (NX 43673 55707). This relocation occurred following centuries of silting and then the alteration of the course of the River Bladnoch that runs into Wigtown Bay where it joins the River Cree.[3]
WigtownHarbour or Wigtown Quay was relocated in 1818 to serve the town of Wigtown and its hinterland in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway, following...
Wigtown (/ˈwɪɡtənˌ -taʊn/ (both used locally); Scottish Gaelic: Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the...
Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhaile na h-Ùige, Scots: Wigtounshire) is one of the historic counties of Scotland,...
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...
purposes, the area is divided into three lieutenancy areas called Dumfries, Wigtown, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, broadly corresponding to the three...
Head, about three miles from Whithorn and about thirteen miles south of Wigtown in Dumfries and Galloway. Whithorn, (Taigh Mhàrtainn in Gaelic), is a former...
The rest of Galloway remained under the authority of a sheriff based in Wigtown, and so became known as Wigtownshire. Kirkcudbrightshire was occasionally...
Wigtown: G.C. Books. ISBN 1-872350-63-1. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stranraer railway station. Video and narration on Stranraer (Harbour)...
Wigtown was a railway station on the Wigtownshire Railway branch line, from Newton Stewart to Whithorn, of the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint Railway...
the mud-flats of Wigtown on the east facing Wigtown Bay, down to the sandy beach at Rigg Bay in Garlieston (where the Mulberry Harbours were developed)...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cairnryan Harbour. R R Cunningham, Portpatrick Through the Ages, Wigtown Free Press, Stranraer, 1977 David L Smith, The...
it into the River Nith. A similar arrangement existed at WigtownHarbour. Today the harbour has a basin and a quay running parallel to the river with...
river flows in several wide curves until it passes Wigtownharbour. From there it flows into Wigtown Bay. Bladnoch Distillery Andrew Symson (1823). A large...
facility and during World War II it became No.2 Military Port, with three harbour piers and a military railway, linking the village with nearby Stranraer...
2015 when lifting commenced and by 2017 it had been completed. Stranraer Harbour railway station "Chronology for Portpatrick Railway". A History of Britain's...
created Fleming the First Earl of Wigtown (the first new Scottish earldom created in more than a century). Wigtown was still Governor in 1361 when the...
CD&DR obtained its authorising Act of Parliament, a meeting was held in Wigtown at which it was agreed that Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire needed...
• London 299 mi (481 km) Council area Dumfries and Galloway Lieutenancy area Wigtown Country Scotland Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Stranraer Postcode district...
Portpatrick and Cockburnspath. Whithorn – with its relics of St Ninian. Wigtown – Scotland's national book town. The town of Stranraer has five primary...
Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of Wigtown. The town was the location of the first recorded Christian church in Scotland...
Twynholm Tynron Unthank Urr Water Wanlockhead Water of Ken Waterbeck Whithorn Wigtown Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust List of places in Scotland Contents: Top A...
District* Portpatrick* Royal Burgh of Whithorn & District* Royal Burgh of Wigtown & District * Sorbie Stoneykirk* Stranraer As of July 2012, there are 19...
Newton Stewart Newton Stewart Junction Mains of Penninghame Causeway End Wigtown Kirkinner Whauphill Sorbie Millisle Millisle Junction Garlieston Broughton...
but there was a harbour at the Carty Port, a couple of miles south of Newton Stewart, and others further down the estuary at Wigtown and Creetown from...
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