Administration
The Dumfries and Galloway Council region is composed of Local Plan Areas and their sub-areas. - From west to east these are: Wigtownshire including Rhins of Galloway; Machars (archaically, Farines); Kirkcudbrightshire; Stewartry (archaically, Desnes); Dumfriesshire; Nithsdale; Annandale & Eskdale.
The term 'Dumfries and Galloway' has been used since at latest the 19th century - by 1911 the three counties had a united Sheriffdom under that name. Dumfries and Galloway covers the majority of the Western area of the Southern Uplands, it also hosts Scotland's most Southerly point, at the Mull of Galloway in the west of the region.
In the town of Newton Stewart there are "administrative centre offices" of the Wigtownshire sub-area of Machars, Wigtownshire, of the Dumfries and Galloway Council.
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