Descriptive gazetteer entries

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Dunfermline	a city and parish	Groome

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

Place	Type of entry	Source
Appin	an estate, with a colliery	Groome
Appin	an estate with colliery	Bartholomew
Baldridge	place	Bartholomew
Baldridge	several localities	Groome
Balmule	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Blackburn	village	Bartholomew
Bowershall	a village	Groome
Bowershall	village	Bartholomew
Broomhall	the seat	Groome
Brucefield	a village	Groome
Cairncubie	copious springs	Groome
Charlestown	seaport village	Bartholomew
Charlestown	a seaport village	Groome
Craigluscar	a hill	Groome
Crossford	a village, with a public school	Groome
Crossford	hamlet	Bartholomew
Devon, Black or South	a small river	Groome
Ducraig	a rocky islet	Groome
Dunduff	school	Bartholomew
Fairway	a sunken rock	Groome
Halbeath	a collier village	Groome
Halbeath	mining village with railway station	Bartholomew
Keavil	seat	Bartholomew
Keavil	a mansion	Groome
Kingseat	a collier village	Groome
Kingseat	mining village	Bartholomew
Limekilns	coastal village	Bartholomew
Logie	seat	Bartholomew
Logie	a mansion	Groome
Masterton	village	Bartholomew
Masterton	a village	Groome
Middledean	village	Bartholomew
Middledean	a hamlet	Groome
Milesmark and Parknook	conjoint village	Bartholomew
North Queensferry	village with railway station	Bartholomew
Pettymuir	village	Bartholomew
Pitfirrane	a mansion	Groome
Pitfirrane Park	seat	Bartholomew
Pitreavie	an estate, with a mansion	Groome
Pitreavie	seat	Bartholomew
Pittencrieff	seat	Bartholomew
Pittencrieff	a mansion	Groome
Queensferry, North	a village	Groome
Queensferry, North	village	Bartholomew
Roscobie	A place, with extensive lime works	Groome
Roscobie	place with limeworks	Bartholomew
Townhill	colliery village	Bartholomew
Townhill	a collier village	Groome
Wellwood Colliery	village	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 Dunfermline 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 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth	5
Thomas Pennant	July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire	4
Thomas Pennant	Appendix II: Of Elgin and the Shire of Murray	3
Daniel Defoe	Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland	2
Robert Gammage	Touring central Scotland	2
James Boswell	November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh	1
William Camden	Scotland: North 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
Milesmark	0	2
Cairneyhill	0	2
Limekilns	0	2
Rosyth	0	2
Charlestown	0	2
Carnock	0	2
Crossgates	0	2
Inverkeithing	4	2
Mossgreen	0	2
Hillend	0	2
Beath	0	2
Blair	0	1
Oakley	0	2
Torryburn	0	2
North Queensferry	0	3
Donibristle	0	2
Blackness	0	2
Saline	0	1
Hopetoun	0	2
Cowdenbeath	0	2