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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. It is well known today as "Scotland's National Book Town" with a high concentration of second-hand book shops and an annual book festival. |
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July 2019 - The granite stake which marks the place where two local covenanter women Margaret McLachlan and Margaret Wilson were tied to stakes and drowned on 11 May 1685. They are now known as the Wigtown Martyrs. |
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The information board adjacent to the monument. |
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The County Buildings in Wigtown, formerly the seat of Wigtownshire County Council. |
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A horse and trap in Main Street. |
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Wigtown Market Place. |
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All ways lead to book shops.
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