Old Photographs Port William Scotland

Old photograph of Port William, Wigtownshire, Scotland. The original settlement was known as Killantrae, meaning The Church on the Beach in Gaelic, and was probably founded not long after St Ninian arrival in nearby Whithorn towards the end of the 4th century. Killantrae was swept away following the intervention of developer and landlord Sir William Maxwell of Monreith. In the five years until 1776 he built an entirely new village, complete with a good harbour and was renamed Port William.



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