Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Creetown

Creetown, small seaport with ry. sta., W. Kirkcudbrightshire, at head of Wigtown Bay, 6½ miles SE. of Newton-Stewart, pop. 979; P.O., T.O.; in the vicinity are valuable granite quarries. The neighbourhood is the scene of part of Guy Mannering; Dirk Hatteraick's cave is on the coast, 5 miles SE.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "small seaport with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "harbors")
Administrative units: Kirkcudbrightshire ScoCnty
Place: Creetown

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