Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Cumbernauld	a thriving town and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Achenkill	a farm, with the site of an ancient religions house	Groome
Achinbee	a place	Groome
Arneybog	a mineral tract, with a colliery	Groome
Arneybog	mineral tract with colliery	Bartholomew
Auchinstarry	village	Bartholomew
Condorrat	village	Bartholomew
Condorrat	a village	Groome
Croy	a station	Groome
Drumglass	school	Bartholomew
Dullatur	tract of low land, and railway station	Bartholomew
Fannyside	loch and moor	Bartholomew
Fannyside	a shallow loch and a moor	Groome
Nether Croy	seat	Bartholomew
Smithton	a village	Groome
Smithton	village	Bartholomew
South Muirhead	school	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 Cumbernauld 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	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
Dullatur	0	2
Castlecary	0	2
Hollandbush	0	1
Banknock	0	2
Haggs	0	2
Croy	0	2
Banton	0	2
Condorrat	0	2
Kilsyth	3	2
Greengairs	0	2
Bonnybridge	0	2
Denny	0	2
Dunipace	0	2
Longriggend	0	2
New Monkland	0	2
Glenboig	0	2
Denovan	0	2
Moodiesburn	0	2
Auchendavy	0	2
Slamannan	0	2