page_title: Creetown
section_title: Creetown Heritage Centre
hierarchical_section_title: Creetown / Creetown Heritage Centre
caption_attribution_description: English: Kilmabreck Church The kirk in Creetown.
context_page_description: Creetown is a small seaside town in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, in Galloway in the Dumfries and Galloway council area in south-west Scotland. Its population is about 750 people. It is situated near the head of Wigtown Bay, 18 miles west of Castle Douglas. The town was originally named Ferrytown of Cree as it formed one end of a ferry route that took pilgrims across the River Cree estuary to the shrine of St Ninian at Whithorn. This is why the local football team, formed in 1895, are known as 'The Ferrytoun'.
  Creetown was formerly served by the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Railway. The granite quarries in the vicinity constituted the leading industry from about 1830 to 1900, the stone for the Liverpool docks and other public works having been obtained from them. The village dates from 1785, and became a burgh of barony in 1792. Sir Walter Scott laid part of the scene of the novel Guy Mannering in this neighbourhood.
  The clock tower commemorates Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
  The Ellangowan Hotel was used to portray the interior of the Green Man public house in Robin Hardy's film, The Wicker Man 1973.
context_section_description: The Creetown Heritage Museum is a community-based resource detailing and recording the cultural, industrial and natural history of Creetown and the surrounding area.  It is run by a small volunteer committee who are constantly seeking to add to the collections of photographs, tools and artifacts from current and past village life.
  Another ongoing project is the Oral History Project.  Senior members of the community have been invited to relate their memories of Creetown during their lifetimes.  The project has become a vital source of information and will be collated and documented for the future as a living reference to Creetown over the last 70 years.
caption: Kirkmabreck Church
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