Editing Stranraer (section)

==Historic and notable buildings==
[[File:Stranraer Museum (geograph 1688392).jpg|thumb|The Old Town Hall, completed in 1777; now occupied by the Stranraer Museum]]

The [[Castle of St John]] is a [[medieval]] [[tower house]], built around 1500 by the Adairs of Kilhilt. It has been used as a home, a court, a prison, and a military garrison, the last during [[the Killing Time]] in the 1680s. The [[Old Town Hall, Stranraer|Old Town Hall]], built in 1776,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/60827/stranraer-55-george-street-old-town-hall |title=Stranraer, 55 George Street, Old Town Hall|publisher=Canmore| access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref>  now houses the Stranraer Museum with its displays of [[Victorian era|Victorian]] Wigtownshire and the town's polar explorers, [[John Ross (Royal Navy officer)|Sir John Ross]] and his nephew [[James Clark Ross]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.culture24.org.uk/sc000065|title=Stranraer Museum|publisher=Culture 24| access-date=10 November 2021}}</ref> The town is also home to the [[North West Castle]], built in 1820 and the first hotel in the world with its own indoor curling ice rink.<ref>[http://www.electricscotland.com/history/women/curling.htm ElectricScotland]</ref><ref>[http://www.northwestcastle.co.uk/curling.htm North West Castle]</ref>