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Encyclopedia Britannica



WIGTOWN

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 628 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WAT-WIL
WIGTOWN , a royal
burgh
  and the county town of Wigtownshire,
Scotland
 . Pop. (1901) 1329. It is situated on the western
shore of Wigtown Baywhence the name, from the Scandinavian vik, " bay "-7 m. S. by E. of Newton
Stewart
  by railway. It is built on an
eminence
  around a spacious central area laid out in walks. The town
hall
  stands at a corner of this square, and at the opposite side are two crosses, one of 1738 and the other commemorating Waterloo. Some fishing is carried on. In the old churchyard were buried Margaret MacLachlan, a widow aged 63, and Margaret Wilson, a girl of 18, two covenanting martyrs who were tied to stakes in the sands of Wigtown Bay and drowned by the rising waters (1685), to whose ,nemory, as well as that of three men who were hanged at the same time without trial, an obelisk surmounted by an urn was erected in 1858 on the top of Windy Hill, outside the town. Wigtown was made a royal
burgh
  in 1469.


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