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CREETOWN

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 401 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CREETOWN , a seaport of
Kirkcudbrightshire
 ,
Scotland
 . Pop. (1901) 991. It is situated near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 m. W. of Castle Douglas, but 232 M. by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railway. The granite quarries in the vicinity constitute the leading industry, the stone for the Liverpool docks and other public works having been obtained from them. The
village
 
dates
  from 1785, and it became a
burgh
  of barony in 1792. Sir Walter Scott laid
part
  of the scene of Guy Mannering in this neighbourhood. Dr
Thomas
  Brown, the metaphysician (1778-1820), was a native of the parish (Kirkmabreck) in which Creetown lies.


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