Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Garlieston (or Garliestown)

Garlieston (or Garliestown), small seaport with ry. sta., on Garlieston Bay, in co. and 9½ miles SE. of Wigtown, pop. 699; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank; Garlieston Bay, ½ mile broad at entrance, has good anchorage.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "small seaport with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "harbors")
Administrative units: Wigtownshire ScoCnty
Place names: GARLIESTON     |     GARLIESTON OR GARLIESTOWN     |     GARLIESTOWN
Place: Garliestown

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