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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WIGTOWN , a royal See also:

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

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