Wigtown County Buildings, also known as Wigtown County Buildings and Town Hall, is a municipal building in The Square, Wigtown, Scotland. The structure...
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This municipal building in its turn gave way to the Wigtown County Buildings which were erected in 1862. The buildings served as the county Headquarters...
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Wigtownshire (redirect from County of Wigtown)
Wigtownshire or the County of Wigtown (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhaile na h-Ùige, Scots: Wigtounshire) is one of the historic counties of Scotland, covering...
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Ellsworth, Maine Rothesay Town Hall and County Buildings, Scotland Wigtown County Buildings, Scotland County Building (disambiguation) This disambiguation page...
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Stranraer Sheriff Court (category Government buildings completed in 1874)
established county councils in every county, Wigtownshire County Council held its first meeting at Wigtown County Buildings in The Square at Wigtown on 22 May...
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Wigtown is a lieutenancy area in south-west Scotland and a committee area of Dumfries and Galloway Council. From 1975 until 1996 it was also a local government...
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Shires of Scotland (redirect from County of Scotland)
the period 1114–1133, not mentioned in the ordinancea) Selkirk Stirling Wigtown ^a Gospatric was mentioned as sheriff in a number of charters of Earl David...
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"County Buildings, High Street, Linlithgow (LB37399)". Retrieved 18 July 2021. Historic Environment Scotland. "Wigtown Town Hall (former Wigtown Sheriff...
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(1845) Ingliston House (1846) Inverness Prison (1846) Wigtown County Buildings (1862) County Buildings, Alloa (1863) Stirling Sheriff Court (1864) Stranraer...
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lieutenancy areas called Dumfries, Wigtown, and the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, broadly corresponding to the three historic counties. The term Dumfries and Galloway...
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List of museums in Scotland (category Lists of buildings and structures in Scotland)
Galloway Archaeology website, archaeology and local history Wigtown County Buildings Wigtown Dumfries and Galloway Dumfries and Galloway Local information...
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Kirkcudbrightshire (redirect from County of Kirkcudbright)
parishes of Kirkmabreck and Minnigaff in the west of the county went instead to the Wigtown district, whilst the five parishes of Kirkbean, Kirkpatrick...
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headquarters of Sutherland County Council were at Golspie from 1890. Stranraer became the administrative headquarters of the Wigtown county council in 1890, and...
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Dunbartonshire (redirect from County of Dumbarton)
the county council. The county council was based at the old county buildings at the sheriff court until 1965, when it moved to new County Buildings on...
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Louis McGuffie (category People from Wigtown)
tablet was laid into the wall of the Wigtown County building in late 1919. His name is also listed on the Wigtown War Memorial. One hundred years to the...
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Machars (section RAF Wigtown)
coastline has enormous variety, starting with the mud-flats of Wigtown on the east facing Wigtown Bay, down to the sandy beach at Rigg Bay in Garlieston (where...
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This is a list of listed buildings in the civil parish of Wigtown, in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download...
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The County of Wigtown. Glasgow: Collins. pp. 305–308. Gifford, John (2002) [1996]. Dumfries and Galloway. Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of...
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River Bladnoch in Wigtownshire, Scotland, located just outside the county town of Wigtown. The River Bladnoch reaches the Bladnoch Distillery which was established...
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Whithorn (section Listed buildings)
burgh in the historic county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, about 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of Wigtown. The town was the location...
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Dumfriesshire (redirect from County of Dumfries)
Stewart, Stranraer and Portpatrick, with branches to Kirkcudbright and Wigtown all closed and lifted. The North British Railway's Waverley route, to Edinburgh...
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Kirkcowan (section Listed Buildings)
parts of the barony of Craichlaw, in the parish of Kirkcowan and county of Wigtown, 17 September 1500 and 28 January 1506–7; one of the lands of Larglegastell...
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Galloway House (category Category A listed buildings in Dumfries and Galloway)
historic county of Wigtownshire in the administrative area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Adjoining the estate village of Garlieston, on Wigtown Bay,...
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administrative county of Kirkcudbrightshire, excluding the parishes of Kirkmabreck and Minnigaff on the western edge of the county, which went to Wigtown district...
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Hay-on-Wye (section Notable buildings)
author of Finding Violet Park Sedbergh – the national book town of England Wigtown – the national book town of Scotland "Ward/Town population 2011". Neighbourhood...
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Machars, in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. About 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Wigtown, it is bounded on the east...
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Dumbarton Castle (category Category A listed buildings in West Dunbartonshire)
created Fleming the First Earl of Wigtown (the first new Scottish earldom created in more than a century). Wigtown was still Governor in 1361 when the...
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town. Newton Stewart is 7 miles (11 kilometres) from Scotland's book town Wigtown. The town was founded in the mid 17th century by William Stewart, fourth...
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founded in 1275 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 miles (13 km) south of...
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