Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Tarbolton	a village and a parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Annbank	a mining village	Groome
Bloody Burn	a brook	Groome
Deadmen's Holm	a piece of alluvial flat	Groome
Deadmens Holm	alluvial land	Bartholomew
Enterkine	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Lochlea	farm	Bartholomew
Montgomerie	seat	Bartholomew
Smithstone	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Smithstone	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 Tarbolton 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.
Robert Gammage	Ayrshire and Renfrewshire	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
Stair	0	2
Craigie	0	2
Symington	0	2
St Quivox	0	2
Mauchline	2	2
Monkton	0	3
Kyle	0	2
Coylton	0	2
Prestwick	0	3
Drongan	0	2
Riccarton	0	2
Ochiltree	1	2
Catrine	0	2
Dundonald	0	2
Hurlford	0	2
Newton upon Ayr	0	2
Crookedholm	0	2
Ayr	11	6
Kilmarnock	5	4
Troon	0	2