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Witherne

Witherne is the obsolete spelling of Whithorn.

Meaning of Whithorn

Proper noun

Whithorn

  1. A small town or royal burgh in Wigtownshire, Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX4540).

Questions about Witherne

What is Witherne the obsolete spelling of?
Witherne is the obsolete spelling of Whithorn.

Words near Witherne in the dictionary

  1. Withern
  2. Withern with Stain
  3. withernam
  4. withername
  5. withernams
  6. Witherne
  7. Withernsea
  8. Witherow
  9. Witherows
  10. withers
  11. withers away

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Witherne (page history and authors); Whithorn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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