Wigtown

Wigtown is Scotland’s national book town and a booklover’s paradise.

Ian Banks headlines Wigtown Book Festival « Reading Copy 2007

Various venuesBook Town Festival, Wigtown, Fri to 2 OctOutdoor activities including mountain biking and author walks, plus talks from writers including Martin Bell and Julian Baggini.

This week's new events 2011

Stimulation of the literary kind always goes well with a visually stunning setting, as Hay-on-Wye, Wigtown and Edinburgh constantly prove.

This week's new events 2011

Author Ian Banks will be appearing at the excellent Wigtown Book Festival next month.

Ian Banks headlines Wigtown Book Festival « Reading Copy 2007

Then I told him my story — how I had come off an Archangel ship at Leith a week ago, and was making my way overland to my brother at Wigtown.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

He had planned to plant crops on Wigtown, but was unsure what to do now.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

Among those "fast-tracked" was Wigtown farm, one of two properties owned by CFU president Tim Henwood in the Banket area, 100 km north of Harare.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

"Bluidy Clavers" was Sheriff of Wigtown in her day, and in her presence he dared to inveigh against one who was still the idol of

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Wigtown, about three miles south from Whithorn, or on the spot where the monastery afterwards arose.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

"Margaret and Agnes," the latter only eighteen years of age, who were tied to stakes at low water in the Bay of Wigtown on May 11th, 1685, and, refusing an opportunity to recant and return to the Roman Catholic faith, were left to be drowned in the rising tide.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor