Wigtown is also home to bookbinders and publishers, the largest traditional second hand bookshop in Scotland, the printer of the smallest books in the world and the world renowned Historic Newspapers. Find out what was making headlines on the day you were born.

From spring to late Autumn there’s a busy festival programme culminating in the annual Literary Festival - a unique and very Scottish celebration of the written word. This year invited guests include Melvyn Bragg, Kate Adie, Douglas Dunn, the Solway Poets, Alastair Reid, Mairi Hedderwick, Pauline Earles, Des Dillon and Colin Bell to name but a few.

Here in Wigtown we take a more relaxed view of life and we invite you to sample our hospitality. Meandering along roads in the heart of the Galloway countryside, the scenic journey here is just what you need to unwind, cast off the pressures of city life, slow down, relax and be reminded of what quality of life is really about.