Our location in Scotland
The District of Wigtown is located in the south west of Scotland. Your route from the South would follow the A75 from Gretna Green via Dumfries towards Stranraer.
For travel time by road Allow six to seven hours from the Home Counties and East Anglia in England. From England's Midwest, three hours, Coming from Edinburgh or Glasgow, two to two and a half hours. The roads in this part of Galloway are nearly always quiet apart from the odd tractor; a landscape of gently rolling hills, yet within a short drive of Galloway Forest Park with it's lochs, rivers and mountains.
Google Map of our location here
Click the button below to show our location or enter your postcode for a route to Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway - Journey times are very very pessimistic!
by sea
- From Ireland numerous ferries cross each day from Larne and Belfast to Stranraer and Cairnryan. Stena Line ferries operate between Belfast and Stranraer. P & O Lines operate the service between Larne and Cairnryan (close to Stranraer) see P&O Irish Sea for more information and booking.
by rail
- From England you can take the west-coast Intercity service to Glasgow via Dumfries with Virgin Trains or GNER. From Glasgow, ScotRail runs trains to Barr Hill, Stranraer and Dumfries, the nearest station to Wigtown is Stranraer.
by air
- Glasgow (Prestwick) is reasonably close with cheap flights, especially from London Stanstead and many new low cost routes from Europe have recently opened up. Ryan Air has current routes from: Barcelona, Girona, Bournemouth Brussels, Charleroi, Cardiff, Derry, Dublin, Faro, Frankfurt, Gothenburg. London Stanstead, Hamburg. Milan, Oslo, Paris, Pisa, Shannon, Stockholm. For more information on Prestwick Airport see the Prestwick web site .
by bus
- National Express provides across the border service from England into Scotland. Local bus services connect to Stranraer to the west, and Dumfries in the east, and through Dumfries to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Carlisle the rest of England. Local services from Newton Stewart, Wigtown and through the Machars peninsula.