A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Whithorn, royal and police burgh, and par., Wigtownshire, 12½ miles S. of Wigtown by rail - par., 11,891 ac., pop. 2929; police burgh, pop. 1653; royal burgh, pop. 1643; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Thursday. Whithorn is a place of great antiquity, and has the ruins of a cathedral, occupying the site of a church founded (4th century) by St Ninian - the "Candida Casa," and the earliest Christian church in Scotland. The shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn was long a famous resort of pilgrimage. Whithorn formed one of the Wigtown District of parliamentary burghs, which returned 1 member until 1885.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "royal and police burgh, and parish" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Whithorn ScoP Whithorn Burgh Wigtownshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Whithorn |
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