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Wigtown

Wigtown is a town in the south of Scotland in Dumfries and Galloway, south of Newton Stewart[?] and east of Stranraer.

It is known as Scotland's "Book Town" and compared to Hay-on-Wye in England for the same reason.

The actor James Robertson Justice[?] was born at Wigtown on June 15, 1905.



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