Wigtown
Wigtown is a town in the south of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway, south of Newton Stewart and east of Stranraer.
It is known as Scotland's "Book Town" and compared to Hay-on-Wye in Wales for the same reason.
The actor James Robertson Justice was born at Wigtown on June 15, 1905.
From 1975 Wigtown gave its name to a local government district in
the Dumfries and Galloway region of Scotland.
From 1996 the area was included in the Dumfries and Galloway unitary area.
(See: Subdivisions of Scotland.) The name is retained as a Lieutenancy Area.
