Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abercorn	a village and a coast parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Binns	seat	Bartholomew
Binns	a mansion	Groome
Craigton	seat	Bartholomew
Craigton	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Duntarvie	estate	Bartholomew
Hopetoun House	seat	Bartholomew
Hopetoun House	the seat	Groome
Linmill	a burn	Groome
Midhope Tower	ruin	Bartholomew
Midhope Tower	a well-preserved ancient castle	Groome
Philipstoun	a village	Groome
Philpstoun	village with railway station	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 Abercorn 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.
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	3
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	2

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
Hopetoun	0	2
Blackness	0	2
Philipstoun	0	1
Winchburgh	0	1
Dundas	0	2
Limekilns	0	2
Charlestown	0	2
Queensferry	10	3
North Queensferry	0	3
Ecclesmachan	0	2
Rosyth	0	2
Inch Garvie	0	2
Kirkliston	0	2
Inverkeithing	4	2
Carriden	0	2
Broxburn	0	2
Dalmeny	0	2
Bridgeness	0	2
Uphall	0	2
Newbridge	0	1