Creetown

Overview

Creetown, once known as Ferrytown of Cree, is a small town on the north side of the Solway Firth.

Established in 1785, this former fishing village was at one end of a ferry route taking pilgrims across the River Cree estuary en route to the shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn.

It was also a busy port from which locally quarried top-quality silver-grey granite was shipped. The old harbour and waterfront has some excellent 18th- and early 19th-century houses.

The town plays host to an internationally famous country music festival each September and is home to the award-wiining Gem Rock Museum, the leading museum of its kind in the world, with the finest collection of gemstones, crystals, minerals, rocks and fossils in Great Britain.

Creetown has also acquired cult status amongst movie buffs as the filming location of the classic horror movie, 'The Wicker Man'.