Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Kilsyth	a town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Abroich	affluent	Bartholomew
Abroich	a burn	Groome
Arnbrae	hamlet	Bartholomew
Arnbrae	a hamlet	Groome
Auchincloch	a hamlet	Groome
Auchincloich	hamlet	Bartholomew
Auchinmully, or Lower Banton	village	Bartholomew
Auchinmully, or Lower Banton	a village	Groome
Baggage Knowe	eminence	Bartholomew
Baggage-Knowe	a small hill	Groome
Banton	a village	Groome
Berryhill	an estate	Groome
Berryhill	estate	Bartholomew
Chapel Green	hamlet with school	Bartholomew
Colzium	glen, seat, and ruined castle	Bartholomew
Craigmarloch	small village	Bartholomew
Dovecotwood	old castle	Bartholomew
Garvald or Garrel	a hill and a burn	Groome
Hailston Burn	stream	Bartholomew
Inchterf	a hamlet	Groome
Laird's Hill	a summit	Bartholomew
Low Banton	hamlet	Bartholomew
Orcbard	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 Kilsyth 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 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	3
Thomas Pennant	September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh	1
Thomas Pennant	Appendix VIII: Itinerary	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
Croy	0	2
Dullatur	0	2
Banton	0	2
Condorrat	0	2
Auchendavy	0	2
Cumbernauld	1	2
Inchbelly	0	2
Hollandbush	0	1
Milton	0	3
Birdston	0	2
Castlecary	0	2
Banknock	0	2
Kirkintilloch	0	2
Moodiesburn	0	2
Haggs	0	2
Chryston	0	2
Lenzie	0	2
Auchinloch	0	2
Lennoxtown	0	2
Glenboig	0	2