Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Annan. You may be able to find further references to Annan in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Annan	a river	Groome
Annan	a royal and parliamentary burgh	Groome
Annan	river	Bartholomew
Annandale	the middle one of the three divisions of Dumfriesshire	Groome
Annandale	division of Dumfries-shire	Bartholomew

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Annan.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Battle-Hill	eminence	Bartholomew
Battle-Hill	an eminence	Groome
Bonshaw Tower	an old mansion	Groome
Crea, or Creca	village	Bartholomew
Howgill	village	Bartholomew
Howgill	a village	Groome
Kenziels	hamlet	Bartholomew
Kenziels	a hamlet	Groome
Lochfield	a hamlet	Groome
Mount Annan	seat	Bartholomew
Mount-Annan	a mansion, with beautiful grounds	Groome
Northfield	seat	Bartholomew
Northfield	an estate, with an elegant mansion	Groome
Warmanbie	seat	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Annan within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland	3
George Head	Carlisle and the Solway Firth	2
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	1
Robert Gammage	To Scotland in 1843	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Dornock	0	2
Brydekirk	0	3
Cummertrees	0	2
Bowness	7	2
Port Carlisle	3	2
Hoddom	0	2
Kirtlebridge	0	2
Irving	0	2
Ecclefechan	0	2
Browhouses	0	2
Eaglesfield	0	2
Birrens	0	2
Kirkpatrick Fleming	0	1
Whitrigg	0	1
Ruthwell	1	2
Middlebie	0	2
Drumburgh	0	2
Kirkconnel	0	2
Dalton	0	2
St Mungo	0	2