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Machars, TheView NW over the Machars from Isle of Whithorn
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A district of Dumfries and Galloway comprising farmland, heathland and shoreline, The Machars is the name given to the low and flat peninsula of Galloway lying between Wigtown Bay and Luce Bay and to the south of the Galloway Hills. Its chief towns are Wigtown and Whithorn and its southernmost point is Burrow Head, overlooking the Solway Firth. Machars comes from Scots Gaelic, meaning a flat area of land.
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