Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . l Ban itary, and police burgh, the towncentre of the parish, 2 miles inland,sea level. By road it is 3£ milesHITHOKN, 82 ESE of Stranraer, andwn ; and its station, tho terminus ofailway (1875-77), is 12J miles fromThe main street, extending 5| fur-yard, is narrow at the foot or northernbroad towards the middle, where ad over—crosses it, and where it sendsstreets—tho Pond, leading to thehe Free Church (or Rotten) Row. Atnows again into the Port Mouth,Jlasserton Row and Isle Row, runninge
Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical and historical . l Ban itary, and police burgh, the towncentre of the parish, 2 miles inland,sea level. By road it is 3£ milesHITHOKN, 82 ESE of Stranraer, andwn ; and its station, tho terminus ofailway (1875-77), is 12J miles fromThe main street, extending 5| fur-yard, is narrow at the foot or northernbroad towards the middle, where ad over—crosses it, and where it sendsstreets—tho Pond, leading to thehe Free Church (or Rotten) Row. Atnows again into the Port Mouth,Jlasserton Row and Isle Row, runningely. Great improvements have beenginning of the present century. TheIs have made way for good slatedry door are departed ;ass-grown. There are•, savings bank, andof the Clydesdale andinsurance agencies, 2 hotels, a gasill (1814), a bowling green, and ae Thursday alter the first Friday ofit January, February, and March,hurch, built in 1822, contains 800a later square tower; the Freeoon after the Disruption. Otherare a church, a Reformed1, and the Roman Catholic ironMartin, and John (1882 ; 120. Seal of Whit sittings). The burgh is governed by a provost, 2 bailiesa treasurer, a town clerk, and 5 councillors; andprior to the Redistribution Act of 1885 it united withWigtown, New Galloway, and Stranraer in returninga member to parliament. As a royal burgh, it claiuis WHITHORN WHITHORN to have got its earliest charter from Robert Bruco ; andit rests its appeal on a confirmatory charter granted byJames IV. in 1511. Corporation revenue (1833) £153,8s., (1840) £230, lis., (1874) £228, (1884) £80. Muni-cipal constituency (1885) 253. Valuation (1866) £2779,(1885) £3817, plus £150 for railway. Pop. (1831) 1305,(1851) 1652, (1861) 1623, (1871) 1577, (1881) 1653, ofwhom 904 were females, and 1643 were in the royalburgh. Houses (1885) 308 inhabited. Whithorn is mentioned by Ptolemy, the Alexandriangeographer, in the first half of the second century, ,as Leukopibia, a tow
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