Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

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

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Borough Head	a promontory	Groome
Carghadonn	an ancient fortification	Groome
Carghadoun	ancient fortification	Bartholomew
Castle Feather	ancient fortification	Bartholomew
Castle-Feather	an ancient fortification	Groome
Castlewigg	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Castlewigg	seat	Bartholomew
Glasserton Road	school	Bartholomew
Isle of Whithorn	seaport village with pier	Bartholomew
Isle of Whithorn	a seaport village	Groome
Ket	a streamlet	Groome
Tonderghie	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Tonderghie	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 Whithorn 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.
William Camden	Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall	4

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
Glasserton	0	2
the Isle of Whithorn	0	2
Sorbie	0	2
Garliestown	0	2
Machers	0	2
Port William	0	2
Kirkinner	0	2
Mochrum	0	2
Bladnoch	0	2
Eldrig	0	2
Kirkdale	0	2
Wigtown	2	2
Kirkmabreck	0	2
Kirkandrews	0	2
Cardoness	0	2
Creetown	0	2
Scares Islands	0	1
Borgue	0	2
Anworth	0	2
Little Ross	0	2