Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ket

Ket, a streamlet of Glasserton and Whithorn parishes, SW Wigtownshire. Rising ¾ mile WNW of Glasserton church, and within 1 mile of Luce Bay, it describes a semicircle round by Whithorn town, and, after an easterly run of 5 ½ miles, falls into the sea at Portyerrock.—Ord. Sur., sh. 2, 1856.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a streamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "streams")
Administrative units: Whithorn Parish       Wigtownshire County

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