Easy hikes and walks around Port William

There's no car park cafe or toilets . So very few people . Very peaceful . CHECK TIDE TIMES as it's flat and the tide comes in quickly

Catch the beautiful Bladnoch River flowing south beneath Wigtown and into the waters of Wigtown Bay. There are plenty of idyllic spots next to the river where you can stop and catch your breath.

The vibrant small settlement of Wigtown holds the title of Scotland's national book town! The town has an endless number of fantastic bookshops, old and new, as well as wonderful cafes, restaurants, and riverside views.

Fantastic deli-style butchers with excellent sausage rolls.

Known as Scotland’s national book town, Wigtown has high concentration of second hand book shops on both sides of the wide street. Every year it hosts a ten day literacy festival, attracting well known authors.

Wigtown harbour is part of a nature reserve with seating to sock up the views.

The Wigtown Martyrs or Solway Martyrs, Margaret Maclauchlan and Margaret Wilson were Scottish Covenanters who were executed by Scottish Episcopalians in 1685 in Wigtown, Scotland, by tying them to stakes on the town's mudflats and allowing them to drown with the rising tide. Monuments to the 'Wigtown Martyrs' exist in Wigtown. During "The Killing Times" of the Covenanters in the 17th century, Margaret McLachlan, an elderly woman of around 63, and Margaret Wilson, around 18 years of age, were sentenced to be tied to stakes in the tidal channel of the River Bladnoch near its entrance to Wigtown Bay to be drowned by the incoming tide. The ploy was that the younger woman might be persuaded to change her mind after watching the older woman drown. The strategy failed and both died. This execution was carried out by dragoons under the command of Major Windram in the presence of Sir Robert Grierson of Lag who held the King's Commission to suppress the rebels in the South West. Their story, as told in various sources, tells how the women were betrayed by an informer. After about a month in prison they were tried as rebels and sentenced to death by drowning. The story of the Wigtown Martyrs was among those collected by Robert Wodrow and published in his History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution. The Church of Scotland synod had decided in 1708 to collect accounts of persecution under the Stuart monarchs, and persuaded Wodrow to take on the research. He wrote that Thomas Wilson "lives now in his father's room, and is ready to attest all I am writing." There are two graves to the women in the local churchyard and on nearby Windy Hill there is a memorial obelisk. There is also a stone at the point where they died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigtown_Martyrs

Part of the Wickerman was filmed here. Worth a visit, even if just to cool off in the sea after a ride.