The reporter in the Statistical Account noted that the population was declining in the rural parish and increasing in the town for two reasons: one, because of the enlargement of the farms which forced farms servants to seek employment in the town, and secondly, because of the Irish immigrants.

The reporter in the Statistical Account noted that in Wigtown, as in almost all the other towns in Galloway, there was a want of industry ; however, ‘ something of a manufacturing spirit has arisen in this part of the county ’.

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