# Wigtown Martyrs' Stake Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC054822
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Dec. 12, 2025
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC054822


## Contact

- **Address:** Orchardton House, Acre Place, Wigtown, Newton Stewart
- **Postcode:** DG8 9DU
- **Website:** none



## Activities

**Activities:** 'It carries out activities or services itself'

**Purposes:** 'the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science'

**Objectives:** 4 The organisation’s purposes are to advance the understanding of Wigtown’s heritage through the story of the Wigtown Martyrs. The organisation’s purposes are: (a) to preserve the site of the “Martyrs’ Stake” which marks the place where Margaret Wilson and Margaret McLachlan were drowned for their faith. (b) to promote safe access to the site. (c)  to promote an understanding of the site as it would have been in 1685. (d) to take such other steps and actions as the trustees consider appropriate to protect and promote the memory of the Wigtown Martyrs.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Dumfries And Galloway
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood