Publication Account

Date 1981

Event ID 1018523

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018523

An early reference to a tolbooth in Wigtown occurs in 1591, and it is possible that this structure was blown up by gunpowder in the eighteenth century to make way for the Market (or Court) House mentioned by Bishop Pococke in 1760 and another eighteenth-century writer, Samuel Robinson (Fraser, 1877, 32; Kemp, 1887, 18; Fraser, 1877, 32). This municipal building is its turn gave way to the County Buildings which were erected in 1862.

Information from ‘Historic Wigtown: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1981).