Wigtoun
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Wigtoun is a toun that caws itsel "Scotland's National Book Town", o coorse a Scots-speaker wad say Scotland's Naitional Beuk Toun. This comes fae the nineteen beuk shops & furthsetters (publishers) in the toun, alang wi the ither airtistic shops.
It's locatit in sooth wast Scotland in Dumfries an Gallowa.
[edit] Beuk shops
- Transformer
- M.E. McCarty bookseller
- The Old Bank Bookshop
- The Box of Frogs Children's Bookshop
- At the Sign of the Dragon
- Ming Books
[edit] Treevia
- In the Harry Potter universe, The Quidditch team, the Wigtown Wanderers comes fae this toun.
- The actor James Robertson Justice wis born in Wigtoun on 15 June, 1905.
