Page

Visitor Info

We recommend that visitors reserve a table at the Steam Packet prior to arrival, as it can get busy especially at weekends, dogs are accepted in the bar area and the conservatory.

Isle of Whithorn, with it's pretty harbour, is the site of the ruins of St. Ninian's Chapel, walk from the harbour passed the memorial to The Solway Harvester, you'll find the tower and pretty coves to the chapel.

Find out more about the history of the village here Wikipedia

Click here for more tourism info

Useful Info for your stay

The Steam Packet Inn - 01988 500334
An award-winning inn which has year-round popularity for its restaurant and meals based on the best of local produce, including fish and seafood straight from the quayside. The Steam Packet often has events and bands on - see their website https://www.thesteampacketinn.co.uk/
Harbour Row Isle of Whithorn, DG8 8LL

Saint Ninian’s Tearoom - T: 01988 501197
Isle of Whithorn, DG8 8LH

Isle of Whithorn Post Office & Shop
St Ninians Terrace, Isle of Whithorn, Newton Stewart DG8 8LHU

Nearby

Whithorn

The post office and shop is a great resource for milk, papers and cards etc, next door the cafe in the hall serves freshly cooked breakfasts and more but both are open limited hours. Nearby Whithorn has a Costcutter and a few nice cafe's including the visitor centre cafe. Galloways shop is like a time capsule of corner shops as they used to be. Also Chemist.

The Railway Inn at Whithorn is very good and again it is advisable to book, see their facebook page

Central Cafe, Takeaway, 17 George St, 01988 401385 Facebook

There is small petrol station at Whithorn - limited hours.

Costcutter
65 St Johns Street
Whithorn
DG8 8PD

Garlieston

The Hive, 11 South Cresent, 01581 205118
Homemade food and coffee website

The Harbour Inn - T: 01988 600685
18 South Cres, Garlieston, DG8 8BQ
the-harbour-inn.co.uk

Wigtown

Co-op, various cafe's, cafe at the Bladnock distilery https://www.bladnoch.com/

Petrol - Fill up at Newton Stewart - 24 hr petrol is available at Bladnock

Supermarkets

We recommend that you stop at Newton Stewart on the way, there are good butchers a Co-op, Aldi and a small Sainsburys - easy to find.

Other places to stop at on the way

Castle Douglas has many cafe's, large Tescos, shops
Kirkudbright for it's art galleries and museams
Gate House of Fleet cafe's, shops, Mill on the Fleet, Park

Whats on in the area FaceBook Page

CLICK HERE FOR OUR VISITOR GUIDE WEBSITE themachars.co.uk

...

Isle of Whithorn Gallery 2focallength 55flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:15:49 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 18flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:21:54 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 30flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:23:54 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 35flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:25:22 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 28flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:25:56 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 24flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:27:32 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 24flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 3872fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 8camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:29:12 PMwidth 2592cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 18flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:29:50 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 30flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:30:44 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 55flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:31:01 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 20flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:36:55 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 24flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 3872fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 8camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:40:14 PMwidth 2592cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 55flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:40:37 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 18flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 11exposuretime 0.0025orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:44:43 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 55flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:45:40 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60focallength 44flash 16cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONheight 2592fnumber 10exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:45:56 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONfocallength 35height 3872fnumber 9exposuretime 0.003125orientation 8camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:47:41 PMwidth 2592cameramodel NIKON D60cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONfocallength 55height 2592fnumber 8exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 9:50:24 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60cameramake NIKON CORPORATIONfocallength 55height 2592fnumber 8exposuretime 0.004orientation 1camerasoftware Nikon Transfer 1.3 Woriginaldate 7/9/2018 11:13:04 PMwidth 3872cameramodel NIKON D60

Submenu

< | TOP | >

Page