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Wigtown scotlands book town travel photography blog. We recommend booking leakeys secondhand bookshop tours ahead of time to secure your spot. Our bookshop in the beautiful town of carmarthen stocks a wide range of new and preowned books so please call in and say hello. Scotland s largest second hand bookshop in wigtown a book town is a town or village with many used book or antiquarian book stores. A bookshop guide to wigtown, scotlands national book town. The bookshop is the largest secondhand bookshop in scotland, with over a mile of shelving supporting roughly 100,000 books. Opening hours are 9 5, monday to saturday all year round. You can come to the bookshop during the opening times listed above and check our shelves for your course books and other books of interest. Books are sold on a first come, first served basis during september and october but outside of this very busy period you may reserve books. It lies east of stranraer and south of newton stewart.
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