Wigtown is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire in the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. It lies east of Stranraer and south of Newton Stewart.
It is well known today as Scotland's National Book Town with a concentration of second-hand book shops. It has a population of about 1,000.
Wigtown is also the name of a ward, a government district in the region of Dumfries and Galloway council. The ward covers a larger area than the town, about six miles long and four miles wide, comprising about 7000 acres bounded on the east by Wigtown bay and on the south by the river Bladnoch.
Wigtown is the gateway to and main centre of the Machars.
Due to the North Atlantic Drift (Gulf Stream) the climate is mild and plants normally associated with the Southern Hemisphere can successfully be grown here.
