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Whithorn

town in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK
Place Town Q1788927

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, small burgh
Official website
www.whithorn.com[5]

Location

Country
United Kingdom[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 54.735°, -4.416°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Dumfries and Galloway, Whithorn, Wigtownshire, Wigtownshire[1]

Population and size

Population
+780[6]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 780 GeoNames 790 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
DG8[3]
More facts +3
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa[7][8][9]
Historic county
Wigtownshire[10]
OS grid reference
NX445405[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Whithorn fa ویتهورن ja ウィソーン ja ウィットホーン ru Уиторн
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
144389398
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n92029558
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
St Ninians Chapel.jpg ↗
BBC Things ID
7022c715-7a6d-49a3-80b0-fbf782508f8f
Curlie ID
Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/Scotland/Dumfries_and_Galloway/Whithorn/
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Whithorn
FactGrid item ID
Cúcuta
Freebase ID
/m/022ypb
GB1900 ID
5806b5052c66dc1ce50022f8
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2611627
GSS code (2011)
S20000296, S19000325
Gazetteer for Scotland place ID
towns/townfirst366
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GeoNames ID
2634042
J9U entity ID
987007567697805171
OpenStreetMap node ID
208129999
TOID
4000000074564742
Topic's main category
Category:Whithorn
Undiscovered Scotland ID
whithorn/whithorn
Vision of Britain place ID
16496
Vision of Britain unit ID
10362453
WOEID
40302
Who's on First ID
1125913637
Wikishire article ID
Whithorn
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJxCyhjVr8kGBHxjH9rQbd
Yale LUX ID
place/9f7eef5a-ff02-42cc-8c8d-3ef6a732b8d0

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🔗 Connections
Described by source 3
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Dumfries and Galloway, Wigtownshire
People born here 2
John Ramsay McCulloch, Alastair Reid
Country 1
United Kingdom
FactGrid item ID 1
Cúcuta
Historic county 1
Wigtownshire
Instance of 1
town
Located in time zone 1
UTC+00:00
People who died here 1
Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus
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Cúcuta United Kingdom

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . vocaleyes.co.uk. Retrieved . vocaleyes.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 11w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Dumfries and Galloway, Whithorn, Wigtownshire
    Official website → https://www.whithorn.com/
    Coordinate location → 54.735°, -4.416°
    Described by source → The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Pauly–Wissowa
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48912: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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