The Isle of Whithorn, sometimes known as “The Isle,” is a recognised excellent conservation area. In the viewfinder of any camera, the harbour’s elegant crescent of shore and tidy dwellings combine for the ideal scene. Ninian, Scotland’s first missionary and saint, established his church at Whithorn at the very beginning of the country’s Christian history, more than 1600 years ago, when the town was already established. Even at the greatest tides, the Isle Church, a former Free Kirk, stands out prominently. The Isle Harbour, which used to be the destination for shipments of coal, fertiliser, and timber, is now bustling throughout the year with local boats going out to fish for crabs and lobsters and bringing back scallop catches from the Manx fleet that is in town. The award-winning Steam Packet Inn on the waterfront, however, welcomes some of the best right in!
