Wigtown: Scotland's National Book Town
Southern Scotland, Scotland
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Wigtown: Scotland's National Book Town
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Wigtown is Scotland's National Book Town, and its book festival, first held in 1999, runs for ten days every autumn and is the second largest in Scotland. The Bookshop holds about 100,000 volumes, the largest second-hand stock in Scotland. The Wigtown Martyrs' Monument remembers Margaret McLachlan and Margaret Wilson, drowned by the incoming tide in 1685, and Bladnoch Distillery is just outside the town.
Required Activities
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Attend at least three events at the Wigtown Book Festival, which began in 1999 and is the second largest in Scotland
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of 4
Browse The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop with about 100,000 volumes, in Scotland's National Book Town
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of 4
See the Wigtown Martyrs' Monument and the site where Margaret McLachlan and Margaret Wilson were drowned by the incoming tide in 1685
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of 4
Visit Bladnoch Distillery near the town
Attend at least three events at the Wigtown Book Festival, which began in 1999 and is the second largest in Scotland
Browse The Bookshop, Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop with about 100,000 volumes, in Scotland's National Book Town
See the Wigtown Martyrs' Monument and the site where Margaret McLachlan and Margaret Wilson were drowned by the incoming tide in 1685
Visit Bladnoch Distillery near the town
Before you go
The Wigtown Book Festival runs for ten days each autumn, at the end of September and the start of October.
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